 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pagina’s
...faults.' The Dedication stood as Keats proposed, and the new Preface, which is as follows: PREFACE KNOWING sue, And old impertinence expel by new. What tender...man's treat, but for another's ball ? When Florio n feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished. The two first books, and indeed the two last,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 362 pagina’s
...preface hints that his poem was produced under peculiar circumstances. "Knowing within myself," he says, "the manner in which this poem has been produced,...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished." We humbly beg his pardon, but this does not appear to us to be quite so clear — we really do not... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1917 - 654 pagina’s
...dignity and taste, all that can justly be said in dispraise of his work. He warns the reader to expect 'great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished,' and adds most unboastfully: — 'it is just that this youngster should die away : a sad thought for... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 428 pagina’s
...reader of the poet's preface. He states his consciousness that the poem shows ENGLISH LITERATURE " great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished." His motive in admitting its faults he expresses thus : " This is not written with the least atom of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 pagina’s
...preface hints that his poem was produced under peculiar circumstances. "Knowing within myself," he says, "the manner in which this poem has been produced,...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished." We humbly beg his pardon, but this does not appear to us to be quite so clear—we really do not know... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 766 pagina’s
...realize these defects, and in the preface to Endymion had acknowledged that the reader of his romance "must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity,...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished." In this same preface the poet expressed the hope of writing another work that should deal with "the... | |
 | John Keats - 1923 - 256 pagina’s
...insane criticism, more than rivals the insanity of his poetry... "'Knowing within myself (he says) the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it...rather than a deed accomplished... " 'The two first bocks, and indeed the two last, I feel sensible are not of such completion as to warrant their passing... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1925 - 488 pagina’s
...lasting stain on their credit. Endymion displayed, as Keats himself said in his touching preface, " great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...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... | |
 | 1906 - 938 pagina’s
...Kcats's deprecatory plea when Endymion was offered to the world. "Knowing within myself," he 129 says, "the manner in which this poem has been produced,...I mean will be quite clear to the reader, who must perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a... | |
 | 1906 - 872 pagina’s
...Keats's deprecatory plea when Endymion was offered to the world. "Knowing within myself," he says, "the manner in which this poem has been produced,...I mean will be quite clear to the reader, who must perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a... | |
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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, immaturity,... 
