...shortcomings. By the time he came to write the notorious Preface to Endymion, he had moved far beyond them: Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem...attempt, rather than a deed accomplished . . . The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space...

...short, manly preface that was published with the poem." The next day (April 10) he sent it off to Reyn» "Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it it not without a feeling of regret that I make it public. "What manner I mean, will be quite clear...

...father does his son. ENDYMION A Poetic Romance Inscribed to the Memory of THOMAS CHATTERTON 1818 Preface Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem...produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that 1 make it public. What manner 1 mean, will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive great...

...request to his audience not to read it. Keats ' regrets' making the poem public; he accuses himself of 'great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished' and suggests that 'The two first books, and indeed the two last' - which leaves nothing except perhaps...

...2:807-808; and 4:663-664). But then, as he stated in his preface, he recognized that "the reader" would "soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity, and...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished" in this work, and he especially censured the "mawkishness" of the adolescent imagination that such...

...Keats before the masks of great poetry were actually in place: 'the reader', says the youthful author, 'must soon perceive great inexperience, immaturity,...error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished'.80 In her Yeats: A Psychoanalytic Study, Brenda Webster observes that 'Mask-wearing is...

...equivocates comparably in the preface to Endymion — "the manner in which this poem has been produced . . . will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive...feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished" — one of his hostile reviewers, Croker in the Quarterly, confesses that "this does not appear to...

...equivocates comparably in the preface to Endymion—"the manner in which this poem has been produced . . . will be quite clear to the reader, who must soon perceive...error denoting a feverish attempt, rather than a deed accomplished"—one of his hostile reviewers, Croker in the Quarterly, confesses that "this does not...

...the preface itself invites such attention, even as it works to redirect it, is clear from the outset. "Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced," Keats begins, "it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public." What manner I mean, will...

...it represented only a boyish attempt at an old Greek tale. In the preface he wrote that it displayed "great inexperience, immaturity, and every error denoting...feverish attempt rather than a deed accomplished." It is evident that he did not appreciate broad and harmonious outline, but gorgeous embroidery. Verbal...