… meet together’ in order ‘to improve our friends or ourselves’ but ‘ever since the card table has been in fashion all the pleasures of speech has been suppressed’. 5 This silencing of improving advice from friends and family may well have …
… to ‘bowery clefts, and leafy shelves’ (ll. 20-21), as the speaker sets out, ‘light-hearted’ (l. 25), on a quest for pleasures natural and poetic. 4 . From ‘Sleep and Poetry’ (ll. 246-47), in Keats’s Poetry and Prose, ed. Jeffrey N. Cox …