 | F. A. Hall - 1911 - 128 pages
...Louisville, he wrote a few days later, with a proud humility: "This is a mere matter of the moment — I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." That is not the temper of an "amiable bardling" "snuffed out by an article" — nor, on the other hand,... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - English poetry - 1912 - 336 pages
...all great poets seem to have, he writes in another letter : " This is a mere matter of the moment ; I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." During the rest of 1818 and all 1819 Keats worked hard. He had been reading Shakespeare and Milton... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1900 - 1034 pages
...had in it some essential merit, he may be pardoned for adding, "This is a mere matter of the moment ; I think I shall be among the English poets after my death," a prophecy fully confirmed by the appreciative language of Lowell, "Enough that we recognize in Keats... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - English literature - 1914 - 462 pages
...108, 240, 353. CHAPTER XII Keats KEATS died before he was twenty-six years old, and yet his thought, " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death," has been abundantly fulfilled, for in the language of Matthew Arnold, " He is with Shakspere." Of one... | |
 | Harry Bache Smith - Bibliography - 1914 - 510 pages
...the paper-mill would be made immortal by their short sojourn upon his shelves? Although Keats wrote, "I think I shall be among the English poets after my death," he could never have imagined that his little books, for which there were no buyers in his lifetime,... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - English literature - 1914 - 348 pages
...in it some essential merit, he may be pardoned for adding, " This is a mere matter of the moment ; I think I shall be among the English poets after my death," a prophecy fully confirmed by the appreciative language of Lowell, " Enough that we recognize in Keats... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - English literature - 1915 - 488 pages
...calling names, as Byron did in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, but in serving poetry. He wrote, " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death;" and Arnold comments: "He is; he is with Shakespeare." . Works. In his ode On a Grecian Urn Keats concludes... | |
 | New York Public Library - Bibliography - 1916 - 416 pages
...written by Reynolds. I don't know who wrote those in the Chronicle. This is a mere matter of the moment: I think I shall be among the English Poets after my...expression among bookmen, 'I wonder the Quarterly should cut its own throat.' '" Another critic who wrote for the Quarterly, was John Wilson Croker,... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - English literature - 1916 - 604 pages
...was writ in water." Not long before, he had said, in the hope and confidence of youthful strength : " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death." Keats was devotedly loved by his friends, who have all borne testimony to his manly and pure spirit,... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1917 - 662 pages
...by Reynolds. I don't know who wrote those in the 'Chronicle.' This is a mere matter of the moment: I think I shall be among the English Poets after my...expression among bookmen, 'I wonder the "Quarterly" should cut its own throat.' It does me not the least harm in Society to make me appear little and ridiculous:... | |
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This is a mere matter of the moment : I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death. Even as a matter of present interest, the attempt to crush me in The Quarterly has only brought me more into notice, and it is a common expression among bookmen,... 
