[35] Vide supra, p. 85.
[36] Rossetti, Colvin, Gates, Robertson, Forman, and others.
[37] Leigh Hunt. It has been objected to this passage that moonlight is not strong enough to transmit colored rays, like sunshine (see Colvin's "Keats," p. 160). But the mistake—if it is one—is shared by Scott.
"The moonbeam kissed the holy pane
And threw on the pavement a bloody stain."
—"Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto ii., xi.
[38] It is interesting to learn that the line
"For o'er the Southern moors
I have a home for thee"
read in the original draught "Over the bleak Dartmoor," etc. Dartmoor was in sight of Teignmouth where Keats once spent two months; but he cancelled the local allusion in obedience to a correct instinct.
[39] "Ode to a Nightingale,"
[40] "The Liberal Movement in English Literature," London, 1885, p. 181.
[41] "Studies and Appreciations." Lewis G. Gates. New York, 1890, p. 17.