Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
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[147] _Ibid._, V, p. 193.
[148] _Correspondence_, I, p. 107.
[149] P. 248.
[150] _The Examiner_, June 1st, July 6th, and 13th, 1817.
[151] Lines 181-206.
[152] _Works_, IV, p. 64.
[153] _Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries_, p. 257.
[154] May 10, 1820.
[155] Cf. with Poe's sonnet, _Science, true daughter of Old Time thou
art_.
[156] Haydon, _Life, Letters and Table Talk_, p. 201.
[157] In connection with _Hyperion_, it is interesting to note that the
manuscript in Keats's handwriting recently discovered, survived through
the agency of Leigh Hunt. From him it passed into the ownership of his son
Thornton, and later to the sister of Dr. George Bird. It has been
purchased from her by the British Museum. (_Athenaeum_, March 11, 1905.)
[158] This is, of course, a mistake.
[159] For other criticism of the 1820 poems by Hunt, see _Lord Byron and
Some of his Contemporaries_, pp. 258-268.
[160] _I stood tiptoe_, l. 16.
[161] _Ibid._, l. 20.
[162] _Ibid._, l. 81.
[163] _To some Ladies_, l. 15.
[164] _Ibid._, l. 117.
[165] _I stood tiptoe_, l. 215.
[166] _Ibid._, l. 61.
[167] _Calidore_, l. 132. Also pointed out by Mr. Colvin, _Keats_, p. 53.
[168] _To my brother George_, l. 7.
[169] _I stood tiptoe_, l. 144.
[170] Hunt quotes this with approbation, as showing a "human touch."
(_Specimen of an Induction to a Poem_, ll. 13-14.)
[171] _Specimen of an Induction to a Poem_, l. 48.
[172] _Calidore_, l. 66.
[173] _Ibid._, l. 80 ff.
[174] _To ..._, l. 23 ff.
[175] Mr. De Selincourt in _Notes and Queries_, Feb. 4, 1905, dates the
_Imitation of Spenser_ "1813." He does not produce documentary evidence,
however. The discovery of the hitherto unpublished poem, _Fill for me a
brimming bowl_, in imitation of Milton's early poems, dated in the
Woodhouse transcript Aug. 1814, is of considerable interest in determining
the date of Keats's earliest composition of verse. A sonnet _On Peace_
found in the same MS. is a second discovery of an unpublished poem of the
same period.
[176] _Works_, I, p. 26.
[177] _Ibid._, I. p. 16. Mr. W. T. Arnold, _Poetical Works of John Keats_,
London, 1884, has remarked upon the similar use of _so_ by Hunt and Keats.
He compares the "so elegantly" of this passage with the line from _Rimini_
"leaves so finely suit."
[178] _To Charles Cowden Clarke_, l. 88.
[179] _Calidore_, ll. 34-35.
[180] _Story of Rimini_, p. 35.
[181] Colvin, _Keats_, p. 31.
[182] References to Hunt in the sonnets and other poems of 1817 are the
following:
1. "He of the rose, the violet, the spring
The social smile, the chain for Freedom's sake:"
(_Addressed to the Same_ [Haydon].) This sonnet did not appear in 1817,
although it belongs to this period.
2. "... thy tender care
Thus startled unaware
Be jealous that the foot of other wight
Should madly follow that bright path of light
Trac'd by thy lov'd Libertas; he will speak,
And tell thee that my prayer is very meek