John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… such meetings, Keats’s letter weaves a tapestry of motley social experience, giving us a vibrant sense of the intellectual crosscurrents, as well as the private prejudices and tensions, which characterized London literary life in … (an image partly indebted to Shelley’s 1821 elegy, Adonais ). Yet, while insisting on his moral uprightness and the intellectually probing nature of his work, Milnes’s biography also reinforced the sense that Keats’s case was one of … bright star, hung aloft the night, but as part of a constellation of great minds contributing to the ‘grand march of intellect’ (I, 282) which would improve the lives of everyone. Even in his last extant letter, signing off with …
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