 | American literature - 1924 - 848 pages
...in the simple worship of a day." And it is with a fine, high, confident security that he declares: "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." At any rate, whether one cared for fame or not, one could labor to deserve it, to do things that men... | |
 | American literature - 1924 - 962 pages
...in the simple worship of a day." And it is with a fine, high, confident security that he declares: "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." At any rate, whether one cared for fame or not, one could labor to deserve it, to do things that men... | |
 | Gamaliel Bradford - Authors - 1924 - 376 pages
...the simple worship of a day." 89 And it is with a fine, high, confident security that he declares: "I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." 40 At any rate, whether one cared for fame or not, one could labor to deserve it, to do things that... | |
 | William Henry Crawshaw - English literature - 1924 - 606 pages
...applied to all Keats's poetry. Feeling the powers that were still undeveloped within him, he once said, " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.' Matthew Arnold adds, " He is ; he is with Shakespeare.' So far we have been dealing mainly with the... | |
 | Amy Lowell - 1925 - 712 pages
...words, but prouder still are those earlier in this same letter where he is speaking of the reviews: " I think I shall be among the English poets after my death." This was no bombast, but the simple statement of a position which he recognized rather as a responsibility... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - Literary Collections - 1925 - 412 pages
...under such brutal attacks, but he went on, and did the best work he could, and said, very quietly : "I think I shall be among the English poets after my death." He realized the dignity of his calling, and in his letters made clear that he did not take the ivory... | |
 | Elizabeth Glass Marshall - Criticism - 1925 - 356 pages
...(October l4 or l5, l8l8). Of the harsh criticisms he writes: "This is a mere matter of the moment -- I think I shall be among the English Poets after my...more into notice, and it is a common expression among book men '! wonder the Quarterly should cut its own throat.'" l299 The critic, in the second sentence... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 784 pages
...after mentioning the attacks of Blackwood's and the Quarterly: "This is a mere matter of the moment— I think I shall be among the English Poets after my...more into notice and it is a common expression among book men, 'I wonder the Quarterly should cut its own throat.' It does me not the least harm in Society... | |
 | John Barnard - Literary Collections - 1987 - 192 pages
...263). Even the apparently confident prediction to his brother and sister-in-law made in October 1818, 'I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death' (Letters, i. 394), was a response to the vituperative review in Blackwood's Magazine. For Keats 'Fame'... | |
 | Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...than this despairing sentiment, was the hope Keats expressed in a letter to his brother George : " I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death." His name, indeed, is not " writ in water," but deep and indelible in the enduring marble. When he no... | |
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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,... 
