...'Endymion,' and 'Lamia' of Keats. To the first Byron paid the tardy and grudging tribute, that its author had 'without Greek Contrived to talk about the gods of...late Much as they might have been supposed to speak.' In a private letter he admitted it to be 'as sublime as Aeschlyus'; and Shelley, incapable alike of...

...'intense atom ' —ie the mind of Adonais—ever been noted (Don Juan, Canto 11, Stanza 60) Î — John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just...supposed to speak. Poor fellow ! His was an untoward fate ; 'T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article....

...canto of Don Juan, published in the following year, Byron reproduced it in this well-known stanza : — John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just...was an untoward fate ; Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, One would have thought that, during the long tract of seventy years through which...

...unpleasant stanza in Don Juan about Keats's being "snuffed out by an article" grants that Keats here Contrived to talk about the Gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. * Stylistic Development, pp. 66-91, and, on the close approximation to Milton'i caesura-placing, pp....

...dancer Had kept him from the brink of Hippocrene, Which now he found was blue instead of green. 60 John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just...something great, If not intelligible, without Greek Contr1ved to talk about the gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow!...

...wrote with an admiration at once patronizing and ostensibly baffled of the achievements of Keats who "without Greek / Contrived to talk about the Gods.../ Much as they might have been supposed to speak" (Don Juan, x1.6o.3-5). Keats's apparent solecisms were not easily forgiven by some of the reviewers...

...deep-mouth'd Boeotian "Savage Landor" Has taken for a swan rogue Southey's gander. John Keats, who was kill'd off by one critique, Just as he really promised something...was an untoward fate; "Tis strange the mind, that fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff d out by an article. (11.59-60.469-80) Byron thus avoids...

...converting Lockhart's notion of Keats as a Cockney bardling into an unforgettable image of feebleness: John Keats, who was killed off by one critique Just...have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow! His was an unwonted fate; 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by...

...along with the distancing demurral, is there in the stanza of Don Juan in which Byron wonders how Keats without Greek Contrived to talk about the Gods of...late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. (XI. 60) Contriving to talk in verse much as gods - or people - are supposed to speak (in English,...

...pages, in the Quarterly ; and Byron, in his ' Don Juan,' gave credit to this statement : — " Poor Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, . . . Tis strange, the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an article."...