Chapter IX
Reading edition
Influence of Spenser discussed; flimsiness of Keats’s first volume; early sonnets; “Endymion”; Shelley’s criticisms of this poem; detailed argument of the poem; estimate of “Endymion” as to invention and execution; estimate of “Isabella”; of “The Eve of St. Agnes”; of “The Eve of St. Mark”; of “Hyperion”; of “Otho the Great”; of “Lamia”; “La Belle Dame sans Merci” quoted and estimated; Keats’s five great odes—extracts; “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”; imagination in verbal form distinctive of Keats; discussion of the term “faultless” applied to Keats; details of execution in the “Ode to a Nightingale”; other odes, sonnets, and lyrics; treatment of women in Keats’s last volume; his references to “swooning”; his sensuousness and its correlative sentiment; superiority of Shelley to Keats; final remarks as to the quality of Keats’s poetry.163
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