...preface hints that his poem was produced under peculiar circumstances. ' Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. '—Preface, p. vii. We humbly beg his pardon, but this does not appear to us to be quite so clear...

...preface hints that his poem was produced under peculiar circumstances. ' Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished.' — Preface, p. vii. We humbly beg his pardon, but this does not appear to us to be quite so clear...

...preface hints that his poem was produced under peculiar circumstances. ' Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it...mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soot* perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather...

...preface hints that his poem was produced under peculiar circumstances. ' Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it...is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public.—What manner I mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great inexperience,...

...all, in words unapproachable for their delicate accuracy, by Keats in his famous preface to Endymion: "great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished." "The imagination of a boy is healthy" — one can hardly forbear going on with the immortal words — "and...

...their credit. Endymion displayed, as Keats himself said in his touching preface, " great experience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished " ; its imagination is clouded, as he saw and said, with the ferment of the stage that lies between...

...no criticism could be more just than the criticism of his own preface to it. He says, the reader " must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity,...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished. This may be speaking presumptuously, and may deserve a punishment; but no feeling man will be forward...

...however, to be fair to the reviewers. Keats in the published preface to Endymion, said that the reader "must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity,...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished." The Quarterly took him at his word, yet not without observing "a certain degree of talent which deserves...

...Keats's first considerable production, Endymion, came out. In the preface the author apologizes for his " inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished." Again, with remarkably clear insight, " The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination...

...nearly as bad again." Yet when Endymion was published, Keats said in the preface that the poem contained "great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished. ... It is just that this youngster should die away; a sad thought for me, if I had not some hope that...