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...stupidest, an interpretation of the poet by Prof. H. Clement Notcutt of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Other famed men of letters who have tried unsuccessfully to write the truth about Keats are: Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, James Russell Lowell, Stephen Brooke, the Earl of Belfast, Lord Houghton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey. In 1853, Keats was included in The Lives of the Illustrious; in 1857, he achieved the severe immortality of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...situation in regard to them is either tragic or comic. Accordingly, although one meets students who obviously show promise of becoming great engineers, great doctors, captains of industry and so forth, one rarely if ever meets a student who seems destined to become a Darwin, a Beethoven, a Shelley...
...Significance. The tree of life has roots as well as branches. Shelley shinnied to the topmost twig, swaying above sanity with piercing cries of joy. Savaron, cursing brilliantly, burrowed down through the loams of illusion to the last dark rootlet of which words can tell. Psychologically, the book is a faultless exposition of the destructive approach to super-manhood. It would be restless reading for maiden aunts, a dangerous typhoon for souls without some windward anchor of faith or stupidity...
...friends, his admirers and many publishing houses have been urging Professor Copeland to publish a collection of his readings with critical comment. He has, however, always said "no" to every suggestion or proposal; in fact, he has not published any books since 1909, when his "Selections from Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats", written in colaboration with H. M. Rideout '99, appeared...
...Perkins, containing a "History of Comic Literature" in German, which was printed a century and a half ago. These volumes are interesting because they belonged to Robert Southey, whose signature is on the title page of the first volume, and later to Harry Buxton Forman, the editor of Shelley's writings, whose book-plate they contain. Between these two periods, they were in Coleridge's library...