[505] Shelley wrote also a letter to the Quarterly Review remonstrating against its treatment of Keats but the letter was never sent. (Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats, I, p. 208 ff.)
[506] In Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, Hunt states that he informed Byron of his mistake and received a promise that it would be altered, but that the rhyme about article and particle was too good to throw away (p. 266).
[507] Just before leaving England, Keats with Hunt visited the house where Tom had died. He told Hunt in this connection that he was “dying of a broken heart.” (Literary Examiner, 1823, p. 117.)
[508] Works, IV, pp. 42-43, 169-171, 174, 177, 194; V, pp. 27, 29.
[509] Atlantic Monthly, XI, p. 406.
[510] October 11, 1818. It included two reprints from other papers. The first was a letter taken from the Morning Chronicle signed J. S. It predicted that if Keats would “apostatise his friendship, his principles, and his politics (if he have any) he may even command the approbation of the Quarterly Review.” This was followed by extracts from an article by John Hamilton Reynolds in the Alfred Exeter Paper praising Keats for his power of vitalizing heathen mythology and for his resemblance to Chapman and calling Gifford “a Lottery Commissioner and Government Pensioner” who persecuted Keats by “intrigue of literature and contrivance of political parties.”
[511] Dante Gabriel Rossetti suggests this possibility in a letter to Mr. Hall Caine. (Caine, Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, p. 179.)
[512] Cobwebs of Criticism, p. 137.
[513] Autobiography, II, p. 43.
[514] See p. 50 ff.