[170] Hunt quotes this with approbation, as showing a “human touch.” (Specimen of an Induction to a Poem, ll. 13-14.)
[171] Specimen of an Induction to a Poem, l. 48.
[172] Calidore, l. 66.
[173] Ibid., l. 80 ff.
[174] To ..., l. 23 ff.
[175] Mr. De Selincourt in Notes and Queries, Feb. 4, 1905, dates the Imitation of Spenser “1813.” He does not produce documentary evidence, however. The discovery of the hitherto unpublished poem, Fill for me a brimming bowl, in imitation of Milton’s early poems, dated in the Woodhouse transcript Aug. 1814, is of considerable interest in determining the date of Keats’s earliest composition of verse. A sonnet On Peace found in the same MS. is a second discovery of an unpublished poem of the same period.
[176] Works, I, p. 26.
[177] Ibid., I. p. 16. Mr. W. T. Arnold, Poetical Works of John Keats, London, 1884, has remarked upon the similar use of so by Hunt and Keats. He compares the “so elegantly” of this passage with the line from Rimini “leaves so finely suit.”
[178] To Charles Cowden Clarke, l. 88.
[179] Calidore, ll. 34-35.