"I will have no more Wordsworth or Hunt in particular. Why should we be of the tribe of Manasseh when we can wander with Esau? Why should we kick against the Pricks, when we can walk on Roses?... I don't mean to deny Wordsworth's grandeur and Hunt's merit, but I mean to say that we need not to be teazed with grandeur and merit, when we can have them uncontaminated and unobtrusive. Let us have the old Poets and Robin Hood."[127] And again: "Hunt has damned Hampstead and masks and sonnets and Italian tales. Wordsworth has damned the lakes--Milman has damned the old drama--West has damned wholesale. Peacock has damned satire--Ollier has damned Music--Hazlitt has damned the bigoted and the blue-stockinged; how durst the Man?!"[128] A parody on the conversation of Hunt's set, in which he is the principal actor, carries with it a ridicule that is unkinder than the bitterness of dislike, and difficult to reconcile with the fact that Keats at the same time preserved the semblance of friendship.[129] "Scene, a little Parlour--Enter Hunt--Gattie--Hazlitt--Mrs. Novello--Ollier. _Gattie_:--Ha! Hunt got into your new house? Ha! Mrs. Novello: seen Altam and his wife? _Mrs. N._: Yes (with a grin) it's Mr. Hunt's isn't it? _Gattie_: Hunt's? no, ha! Mr. Ollier, I congratulate you upon the highest compliment I ever heard paid to the Book. Mr. Hazlitt, I hope you are well. _Hazlitt_:--Yes Sir, no Sir--_Mr. Hunt_ (at the Music) 'La Biondina' etc. Hazlitt, did you ever hear this?--"La Biondina" &c. _Hazlitt_: O no Sir--I never--_Ollier_:--Do Hunt give it us over again--divine--_Gattie_:--divino--Hunt when does your Pocket-Book come out--_Hunt_:--'What is this absorbs me quite?' O we are spinning on a little, we shall floridize soon I hope. Such a thing was very much wanting--people think of nothing but money getting--now for me I am rather inclined to the liberal side of things. I am reckoned lax in my Christian principles, etc., etc., etc., etc."[130]