[1] This account was published in _The Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal_, beginning October 1, 1840, but was unluckily stopped after the fourth number and carries us no farther than to Ballantrae on the Ayrshire coast. I believe this is the first time that it has been used or quoted. [2] Does the reader remember how in a similar scene from the other side of the Solway, in Scott's _Redgauntlet_, Dame Martin, leading the dance, 'frisked like a kid, snapped her fingers like castanets, whooped like a Bacchanal, and bounded from the floor like a tennis ball'? [3] It is interesting to note that the present poet laureate has found something in this piece entitling it to a place in his severely sifted anthology, _The Spirit of Man_. [4] The words are King Lear's (act v, sc. iii). [5] This metre is essentially the same as the 'common' measure, eight and six, of the hymn-books, only printed out in single lines to be spoken without--or with only very slight--pause. At the point quoted Keats varies it, whether carelessly or on purpose, and the first lines of three successive couplets, beginning from 'Runnels,' etc., are not in fourteeners but in twelves or Alexandrines (='short measure,' six and six, printed out). A similar variation is frequent in early examples of the metre. [6] Printed in error 'Glenside' in all the editions: but the MS. is quite clear, and even were it not so topography would require Glencroe. [7] See John Campbell of Islay, _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_ (1860), vol. ii, p. 52. I owe the suggestion and the reference to my friend Prof. W. P. Ker. Personally I have always associated the magic casements with the Enchanted Castle of Claude's picture representing a very different scene. But the poet's mind is a crucible made for extracting from ingredients no matter how heterogeneous the quintessence, the elixir, which it needs. CHAPTER X SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1818: _BLACKWOOD_ AND THE _QUARTERLY_ _Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine_--Partisan excesses--Wild inconsistency--Virulences of first number--The 'Z' papers and Leigh Hunt--Blackwood and Walter Scott--_The Chaldee Manuscript_--Scott's warning to Lockhart--Lockhart and Keats--'Z' on _Endymion_--A lesson to critics--Marks of Lockhart's hand--The Quarterly on _Endymion_--Indignant friends: Bailey--Reynolds--Woodhouse and Taylor--Keats's composure under attack--Subsequent effects--Tom Keats _in extremis_--Three months by the sick-bed--First Journal-letter to America--Dread of love and marriage--Death of Tom Keats.