[9] IV. 575.
[10] II. 29.
[11] 18 July 1818.
[12] 13 July 1818, to Tom Keats.
[13] April 1818, to Taylor.
[14] Cf. his amusing outburst at Teignmouth, in the previous March, at the effeminacy he ascribed to the men of Devon. ‘Had England been a large Devonshire, we should not have won the battle of Waterloo. There are knotted oaks, there are lusty rivulets, there are meadows such as are not elsewhere—there are valleys of feminine climate—but there are no thews and sinews,’ etc. March 13th, to Bailey.
[15] Lord Houghton, quoted by Buxton Forman, Letters, LXI.
[16] It is not irrelevant, however, in this context, to recall that Dante’s account of his Dream-journey has been thought to give evidence of actual climbing experience. The Purgatory mountain was provided with a good path; but the Inferno, with its precipitous walls, was less easily negotiated. He had, however, the services of a most competent Guide! Cf. H. F. Tozer, Mod. Quart., April 1899.
[17] Cf. ‘vaulted with fire,’ Paradise Lost, i. 298, with ‘the vaulted rocks,’ Hyperion, ii. 348.
[18] Cf. the sonnet written at the top.