...'mawkishness' instead of rising to Shakespearean disinterestedness. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there...necessarily taste in going over the following pages. 'Those men I speak of have previously been defined as 'men who are competent to look, and who do look...

...defines it as "a feverish attempt", written in that "space of life" between childhood and adult life in which "the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain".28 Here too the two poets diverge. Keats is found nourishing his work on doubts and uncertainties;...

...John Keats, in his preface to Endymion, put it like this: The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there...ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness. After sexual maturity, humans devote considerable time and energy to courtship and sexual behavior...

...excuses the mawkishness of some of his juvenilia. He says: The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there...way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted . . .7 And one can see only too well that Owen, then 18, thought of himself as going through this 'space...

...and to youths like the author. The poet (depicted in a "space of life between" boyhood and manhood, "in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambitions thicksighted"), the poem ("It is just that this youngster should die away"), and Chatterton...

...première, il décrit en ces termes sa propre situation : The imagination of a boy is healthy. and thé mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which thé soûl is in a ferment, thé character undecided, thé way of life uncertain, thé ambition thick-sighted."...

...mature imagination of a man is healthy," Keats says in the Preface to "Endymion," his first long poem, "but there .is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted."1 Cultivating...

...a sentence from the preface Keats supplied to 'Endymion': The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life in between, in which the soul of life is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain,...

...PART III THE SPURT 7 "TO GROW HAIRY" Puberty, or the Schuss The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there...ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness. — JOHN KEATS, Endymion I would there were no age between sixteen and three-andtwenty, or that youth...

...made the high school freshman basketball team. Ages 15-18 "The imagination of a boy is healthy and the mature imagination of a man is healthy. But there is a space of life between, in which the souls is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick sighted....