...Boeotian, 'Savage Landor', Has taken for a swan rogue Southey's gander. John Keats, who was kill'd off by one critique, Just as he really promised something...was an untoward fate; 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snufPd out by an article. The list grows long of live and...

...the ironic vein of Byron was assuaged somewhat, and — with regard to the poem — he conceded that: John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just...of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak."0 Even Shelley honoured Keats by crying out: "He is a Greek,"111 and in 1821 he remarked: "His...

...(Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine) ft3^^± IB ' PFf^ ' (Leigh Hunt, 1784-1859) l:H' ' John Keats, who was kill'd off by one critique, Just as he really promised something...His was an untoward fate; Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself snuff'd out by an article. — A— ('Isabella') ° ('Lamia')...

...wrote with an admiration at once patronizing and ostensibly baffled of the achievements of Keats who "without Greek / Contrived to talk about the Gods.../ Much as they might have been supposed to speak" (Don Juan, xi.60.35). Keats's apparent solecisms were not easily forgiven by some of the reviewers...

...journals, especially the remarks in the Quarterly Review, but he gave a less-forgiving account in Don Juan: John Keats, who was killed off by one critique. Just...really promised something great, If not intelligible, — and without Greek Contrived to talk about the Gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed...

...Don Juan, Byron picks up the theme from Shelley's and Brown's immortal words and plays with it. LX John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just...intelligible, without Greek Contrived to talk about the Gods oj late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor jellow! His was an untoward fate; 'Tis...