"Quite the little poet" - how bitterly poor Keats resented the remark! Perhaps because he secretly knew that it was just. For Keats, after all, was that strange, unhappy chimaera - a little artist and a large man. Between the writer of the Odes and the writer of the letters there is all the gulf that separates a halma player from a hero.
Personally, I do not go in for heroic letters. I only modestly lay claim to being a competent second-class halma player - but a good deal more competent, I insist (though of course it doesn't matter), than when I wrote about the larks. "Quite the little poet" - always and, alas, incorrigibly I am that.
Sign in to unlock this title
Sign in to continue reading, it's free! As an unregistered user you can only read a little bit.
