[495] September, 1823.
[496] Reprinted in the Museum of Foreign Literature, XII, p. 568.
[497] August, 1834, XXVI, p. 273.
[498] C. C. Clarke, Recollections of Writers, p. 244. The year in which the letter was written is not given, but it must fall within the years 1833-1840, the period of Hunt’s residence at Chelsea.
[499] The Victorian Age, I, pp. 94-101.
[500] Hunt, Autobiography, II, p. 267.
[501] Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, New York and Boston, 1860, IV, p. 350.
[502] The first preface to Endymion was rejected by Keats on the advice of his friends who thought that it was in the vain yet deprecating tone of Hunt’s prefaces. To this charge Keats replied: “I am not aware that there is anything like Hunt in it (and if there is, it is my natural way, and I have something in common with Hunt).” The second preface justifies the charge.
[503] London Journal, January 21, 1835.
[504] Of Southey’s attack on Hunt and others in May, 1818, Keats wrote: “I have more than a laurel from the Quarterly Reviewers, for they have smothered me in ‘Foliage.’” (Works, IV, p. 115.)