The Poets And The Poetry Of The Century John Keats To Edward Lord Lytton

Excerpt from The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 3: John Keats to Edward, Lord Lytton It was an axiom with Keats that poetry s'hould surprise by a fine excess. Probably his own natural preference fathered such a rule. Whenever he took up the pen, scenes and shapes of beauty crowded so upon his gaze, that the living thought as it struggled through them had much ado to retain its distinctness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.