 | John Keats - 1848 - 414 pàgines
...language. He has no French idiom or particles, like Chaucer ; 'tis genuine English idiom in English words. I have given up " Hyperion," — there were too many...be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humor. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up. It may be interesting... | |
 | John Keats - 1855 - 416 pàgines
...under another inspiration as to be distasteful to its author. "I have given up Hyperion," he writes, " there were too many Miltonic inversions in it. Miltonic...cannot be written but in an artful, or rather, artist's humor." In all these Poems, in their different styles, the progress in purity and grace of diction... | |
 | John Keats - 1856 - 326 pàgines
...under another inspiration as to be distasteful to its author. " I have given up Hyperion/' he writes; "there were too many Miltonic inversions in it. Miltonic...written but in an artful, or rather, artist's humour." In all these Poems, in their different styles, the progress in purity and grace of diction was manifest.... | |
 | 1873 - 522 pàgines
...was Keats' great maxim that poetry should not be studied. He alleges as a reason for his unfinished Hyperion, " there were too many Miltonic inversions...cannot be written but in an artful or rather artist's humor."* This seems a curious conceit to take of the only poem which perhaps has given him lasting... | |
 | John Keats - 1884 - 310 pàgines
...equally unfinished." " I have given up Hyperion" Keats writes from Winchester, Sep. 22, 1819 " — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it —...myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept 229 up." This phrase apparently refers to the mood in which he had just written those noble lines to... | |
 | John Keats - 1884 - 420 pàgines
...Hyperion is, as the poet himself felt, almost too Miltonic. " I have given up Hyperion," he writes; "there were too many Miltonic inversions in it. Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful or artist's humour. It may be interesting to you to pick out some lines from Hyperion, and put a mark... | |
 | Sir Sidney Colvin - 1887 - 252 pàgines
...in September made up his mind to give it up, he wrote to Reynolds explaining his reasons as follows: "There were too many Miltonic inversions in it —...to other sensations. English ought to be kept up." In the same connection he declares that Chatterton is the purest writer in the English language. "... | |
 | Sir Sidney Colvin - 1887 - 256 pàgines
...Reynolds explaining his reasons as follows. " There were too many Miltonic inversions in it—Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or rather,...to other sensations. English ought to be kept up." In the same connection he declares that Chatterton is the purest writer in the English language. "... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 pàgines
...deliberately decided upon its abandonment. He has himself explicitly stated his reason. ' I have,' he says, ' given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic...inversions in it ; Miltonic verse cannot be written but in artful, or, rather artist's humour.' Already, as it seems to us, there are signs that the poem could... | |
 | 1926 - 550 pàgines
...undeviating. . . . He finally abandons the poem, however,48 I have given up Hyperion — there are too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse...to other sensations. English ought to be kept up. At about this time he wrote to his brother in America that he considered Paradise Lost, though fine... | |
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I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written, but in an artful, or rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up. 
