Now, in saying this, I do not for a moment say that Keats was an entirely admirable or even a wholly lovable characterthough his tenderness, his consideration, his affectionateness constantly emerge.

Keats and Lamb seem to our young people to be existences as remote and legendary as Homer, yet it is not an old man's life since Keats was an awkward boy at the door of Hazlitt's lecture-room, and Lamb was introducing Talfourd to Wordsworth as his own only admirer.

Thomas Keats was the principal stableman or assistant in the same business.

Keats is the poetic apostle of the beautiful.

Now, in saying this, I do not for a moment say that Keats was an entirely admirable or even a wholly lovable characterthough his tenderness, his consideration, his affectionateness constantly emerge.

Mr. Hunt is a small poet, but a clever man; Mr. Keats is a still smaller poet, and he is only a boy of pretty abilities which he has done everything in his power to spoil....

That Keats was a friend of Leigh Hunt in the earlier period of his own poetical career is a fact; but not long after the appearance of the Quarterly Review article he conceived a good deal of dislike and even animosity against this literary ally.

Keats was the favorite author of the new school.

' Keats was an undersized man, little more than five feet high.

If Keats had been a peer like Byron, he would have been loaded with vapid commendation.

What, for instance, did Keats and Shelley and Burns and Byron lose by dying, all of them long before they were forty,Keats even long before he was thirty; and what did Wordsworth and Coleridge gain by living so long after?

(1826) 'Keats was a Cockney, and Cockneys claimed him for their own.

Keats was, above all things, the artist, with that love of the beautiful and that instinct for its reproduction which are the artist's divinest gifts.

[Keats]; this is the forest primeval