Keats-Shelley; the Bookman memorial souvenir (1912) (14741951066)

Identifier: keatsshelleybook00lond (find matches) Title: Keats-Shelley; the Bookman memorial souvenir Year: 1912 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: Keats, John, 1795-1821 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 Publisher: London Hodder and Stoughton Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing Before Image: r him, and barring the hope ofhfe with her. Whom the gods love die young, saywe ? Ah ! Charles Kingsley was quite right; it is a gruesome thing, this premature interment. ForKeats it meant love and art, both, cut dowTi and withered.For us, his early death brought an infinity of loss. Ifit were but the lack of such a poem as this Eve of St.Mark was going to be, the loss is hard enough to measure.But just as Keats, by passing into the unknown a half-century sooner than he should have gone from the world * For the authenticity of the events described above, I referthe reader to Mr. Frank T. Sabin, at whose establishment inShaftesbury .\venue (Xo. 118) they took place. I regret thatcircumstances did not admit of my appropriating to my ownpermanent use these gifts of the gods, whose steward, for themoment, Mr. Sabin happened to be. The manuscripts remained,with other interesting Keats material, in his possession, to passin due course to someone wealthy enough to make himself theirowner. 45 Text Appearing After Image: From the drawing of Daniel Maclise. The Eve of St. Agnes. 47 in normal conditions, was si)are(l many liorrid tilings,so he was cut off from much which would have beenassimilated to the enrichment of his mental background.The proposition is too obvious to need exhaustive treat-ment, even were this the place for it ; but two edificesin the world of art have stood out conspicuously in mythought as I have been putting down these remarks.They are the works of Dickens and the pictures ofTurner. Had Keats but lived as late as Landor, whowas born long before him, his humour, his wit, hisvery speech must infallibly have taken a colour fromDickens, because, whether he would have read thebooks or not, he could not possibly have got away fromthe infiltration of Dickens into the common thoughtand speech of our daily life. How is it possible, for

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