| 140 pages
...... I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness. — Praise or blame has put a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty...comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly could possibly inflict, and also when I feel I am right, no external praise can give me 116 such a glow as... | |
| 1892 - 1070 pages
...-who have taken nr part. As for the rest, I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strettg"1 and weakness. Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man fflw* love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on bis own works. *> own domestic criticism... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 508 pages
...after the severe reviews of Endymion have often been quoted; they cannot be quoted too often: — 30 'Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the...makes him a severe critic on his own works. My own crit1cism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Elackwood or the Quarterly could possibly... | |
| Walter Jackson Bate - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 784 pages
...but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic of his own Works. My own domestic criticism has given...comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly • It appeared in the Alfred, West of England Journal (October 6) ; and Hunt then reprinted it, somewhat... | |
| R. P. Hewett - English Poetry - 1985 - 322 pages
...advised him to return to his "plasters, pills and ointment boxes". Yet he wrote in a letter of 1818: My own domestic criticism has given me pain without...comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly [critical reviews] could possibly inflict .... In Endymion I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...English author, lexicographer. Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson. 26 March 1779(1791). 25 Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the...abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. JOHN KEATS (1795-1821). English poet. Leiter, 9 Oct. 1818 (published in Letters of John Keats, no.... | |
| John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...indebted to those Gentlemen who have taken my part — As for the rest, I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness. — Praise or blame...abstract makes him a severe critic on his own Works. 10 My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly... | |
| Andrew Motion - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 702 pages
...good reason for believing this. He had Keats's own word for it: I begin to get a little acquainted with my own strength and weakness. - Praise or blame...comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly could possibly inflict. [A]nd also when I feel I am right, no external praise can give me such a glow as... | |
| David Cairns - Art - 2003 - 704 pages
...absolutely calm again I read my work as if it were not by me." He could have echoed Keats's conviction that "Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the...of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic of his own Work. My own domestic criticism has given me pain without comparison beyond what Blackwood... | |
| Susan J. Wolfson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 324 pages
...standards than his assailants did. "Praise or blame," he told his publisher JA Hessey on 8 October 1818, "has but a momentary effect on the man whose love...comparison beyond what Blackwood or the Quarterly could possibly inflict" (KL 1.373-74). To his brother and sister-in-law in America he commented a week later,... | |
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