Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats
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[71] Canto, II, ll. 433-440.
[72] E. De Selincourt gives these three last as examples of Hunt's
derivation of the abstract noun from the present participle (_Poems of
John Keats_, p. 577).
[73] De Selincourt notes that these adverbs are usually formed from
present participles. (_Poems of John Keats_, p. 577.)
[74] Byron, _Letters and Journals_, III, p. 418.
[75]
"For ever since Pope spoiled the ears of the town
With his cuckoo-song verses, half up and half down,
There has been such a doling and sameness,--by Jove,
I'd as soon have gone down to see Kemble in love."
(_Feast of the Poets._)
Hunt calls Pope's translation of the moonlight picture from _Homer_ "a
gorgeous misrepresentation" (_Ibid._, p. 35) and the whole translation
"that elegant mistake of his in two volumes octavo." (_Foliage_, p. 32.)
[76] _Feast of the Poets_, p. 38. The same opinions are expressed in _The
Examiner_ of June 1, 1817; in the preface to _Foliage_, 1818.
[77] _Ibid._, p. 56.
[78] P. 23.
[79] Saintsbury, _Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860_, p. 220.
[80] Hunt, _Story of Rimini_, London, 1818, p. 11, 200 lines beginning
with top of page. In the 1742 lines of the poem, there are 47 run-on
couplets and 260 run-on lines. There are 7 Alexandrines and 21 triplets.
In the edition of 1832 the number of triplets has been increased to 26.
There are 46 double rhymes. In a study of the caesura based on the first
200 lines there are 70 medial, 17 double caesuras. The remaining 113 lines
have irregular or double caesura.
[81] Keats, _Lamia_, Bk. I, ll. 1-200. In the 708 lines of _Lamia_, there
are 98 run-on couplets, 144 run-on lines, 39 Alexandrines and 11 triplets.
The caesura is handled with greater freedom than in the _Story of Rimini_.
[82] C. H. Herford, _Age of Wordsworth_, p. 83.
[83] R. B. Johnson, _Leigh Hunt_, p. 94.
[84] _Leigh Hunt as a Poet, Fortnightly Review_, XXXVI: 226.
[85] Sidney Colvin, _Keats_, p. 30.
[86] Garnett, _Age of Dryden_, p. 32.
[87] From Homer, Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, Anacreon, and Catullus.
[88] p. 13.
[89] Hunt, _Correspondence_, I, p. 115.
[90] Byron, _Letters and Journals_, IV, p. 238.
[91] Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, _Recollections of Writers_, p. 132.
[92] _Ibid._, p. 133.
[93] Hunt, _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries; with Recollections
of the Author's Life and of his Visit to Italy_, p. 247.
[94] _Ibid._, p. 251.
[95] _Ibid._, pp. 246-272.
[96] _Autobiography_, II, pp. 27, 59.
[97] Colvin, _Keats_, p. 222.
[98] This refers to Keats's first published poem, the sonnet _O Solitude,
if I must with thee dwell_, published (without comment) in _The Examiner_
of May 5, 1816.
[99] Colvin, _Keats_, p. 34.
[100] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 257.
[101] _Ibid._, pp. 257-258.
[102] Sharp, _Life and Letters of Joseph Severn_, p. 163.
[103] _Works_, I, p. 30.