"For sure so fair a place was never seen Of all that ever charm'd romantic eye"? [17] See Appendix, p. 222. [18] See Appendix, p. 223. [19] See particularly the _Invocation to Sleep_ in the little volume of Webb's poems published by the Olliers in 1821. [20] See Appendix, p. 223. [21] See _Praeterita_, vol. ii. chap. 2. [22] See Appendix, p. 224. [23] Compare Chapman, _Hymn to Pan_:-- "the bright-hair'd god of pastoral, Who yet is lean and loveless, and doth owe, By lot, all loftiest mountains crown'd with snow, All tops of hills, and _cliffy highnesses_, All sylvan copses, and the fortresses Of thorniest queaches here and there doth rove, And sometimes, by allurement of his love, Will wade the _wat'ry softnesses_." [24] Compare Wordsworth:-- "Bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells." Is the line of Keats an echo or merely a coincidence? [25] Mr W. T. Arnold in his _Introduction_ (p. xxvii) quotes a parallel passage from Leigh Hunt's _Gentle Armour_ as an example of the degree to which Keats was at this time indebted to Hunt: forgetting that the _Gentle Armour_ was not written till 1831, and that the debt in this instance is therefore the other way. [26] See Appendix, p. 220. [27] The facts and dates relating to Brown in the above paragraph were furnished by his son, still living in New Zealand, to Mr Leslie Stephen, from whom I have them. The point about the _Adventures of a Younger Son_ is confirmed by the fact that the mottoes in that work are mostly taken from the Keats MSS. then in Brown's hands, especially _Otho_. [28] Houghton MSS. [29] See Appendix, p. 224. [30] See Appendix, p. 225. [31] See Appendix, p. 225. [32] In the extract I have modernized Drayton's spelling and endeavoured to mend his punctuation: his grammatical constructions are past mending. [33] Mrs Owen was, I think, certainly right in her main conception of an allegoric purpose vaguely underlying Keats's narrative. [34] Lempriere (after Pausanias) mentions Pæon as one of the fifty sons of Endymion (in the Elean version of the myth): and in Spenser's _Faerie Queene_ there is a Pæana--the daughter of the giant Corflambo in the fourth book. Keats probably had both of these in mind when he gave Endymion a sister and called her Peona. [35] Book 1, Song 4. The point about Browne has been made by Mr W. T. Arnold. [36] The following is a fair and characteristic enough specimen of Chamberlayne:--