 I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.  The Influence of Milton on English Poetry - Page 206by Raymond Dexter Havens - 1922 - 722 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Keats - 1901 - 124 pages
...mind to give the poem up, he wrote to a friend : " There were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or rather artist's humor." Of peculiarly Miltonic words, however, he makes little use. Slope, colure, argent, feverous,... | |
 | John Keats - 1917 - 380 pages
...Reynolds on September 22: "I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful,...humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations." On the day before, writing to his brother, he had said : "I prefer the native music of it [Chatterton's... | |
 | John Keats - 1918 - 432 pages
...English words. I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltouic inversions in it — Miltouic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or, rather,...pick out some lines from Hyperion, and put a mark x to the false beauty proceeding from art, and one ]| to the true voice of feeling. Upon my soul 'twas... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - Languages, Modern - 1918 - 550 pages
...the language : — ' I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be. written but in an artful,...to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.' » What might not so sound an intuition have accomplished ? It ie not easy to become the first of English... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - Languages, Modern - 1918 - 548 pages
...the language :— ' I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful,...to other sensations. English ought to be kept up." What might not so sound an intuition have accomplished ? It is not easy to become the first of English... | |
 | Byron Johnson Rees - Literary Collections - 1919 - 586 pages
...in English words. I have given up "Hyperion" — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful,...pick out some lines from "Hyperion," and put a mark, f, to the false beauty, proceeding from art, and one, ||, to the true voice of feeling. Upon my soul,... | |
 | Byron Johnson Rees - Literary Collections - 1919 - 580 pages
...in English words. I have given up "Hyperion" — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful,...up. It may be interesting to you to pick out some linas from "Hyperion," and put a mark, f, to the false beauty, proceeding from art, and one, ||, to... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - Criticism - 1920 - 226 pages
...upon himself. ' I have given up " Hyperion " — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful,...-|- to the false beauty proceeding from art, and one || to the true voice of feeling. . . .' — (Letter to JH Reynolds, Sept. 22, 1819.) That outwardly... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - Criticism - 1920 - 232 pages
...upon himself. ' I have given up " Hyperion " — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful,...pick out some lines from " Hyperion " and put a mark -f- to the false beauty proceeding from art, and one || to the true voice of feeling. . . .' — (Letter... | |
 | John Keats - 1925 - 292 pages
...Idiom in English words. I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful,...+ to the false beauty proceeding from art, and one | to the true voice of feeling. Upon my soul 'twas imagination — I cannot make the distinction —... | |
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