![]() ![]() ![]() “We venture to make one small prophecy, that his bookseller will not a second time venture 50 quid upon any thing he can write. It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet so back to the shop Mr John, back to ‘plasters, pills, and ointment boxes,’ &c. But, for Heaven’s sake, young Sangrado, be a little more sparing of extenuatives and soporifics in your practice than you have been in your poetry.” Anonymous review in The Critic of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass “As for Mr Keats’s Endymion, it has just as much to do with Greece as it has with ‘old Tartary the fierce’ no man, whose mind has ever been imbued with the smallest knowledge or feeling of classical poetry or classical history, could have stooped to profane and vulgarise every association in the manner which has been adopted by this ‘son of promise’”, ran the Blackwood’s review. If such a thing were possible, then this review might have done it. John Gibson Lockhart on John Keats’s Endymionīyron posited that Keats was “snuffed out by an Article” in Don Juan. ![]()
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