[21] See Praeterita, vol. ii. chap. 2.
[23] Compare Chapman, Hymn to Pan:—
“the bright-hair’d god of pastoral,
Who yet is lean and loveless, and doth owe,
By lot, all loftiest mountains crown’d with snow,
All tops of hills, and cliffy highnesses,
All sylvan copses, and the fortresses
Of thorniest queaches here and there doth rove,
And sometimes, by allurement of his love,
Will wade the wat’ry softnesses.”
[24] Compare Wordsworth:—
“Bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest peak of Furness Fells,
Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells.”
Is the line of Keats an echo or merely a coincidence?
[25] Mr W. T. Arnold in his Introduction (p. xxvii) quotes a parallel passage from Leigh Hunt’s Gentle Armour as an example of the degree to which Keats was at this time indebted to Hunt: forgetting that the Gentle Armour was not written till 1831, and that the debt in this instance is therefore the other way.