" The early histories of
heroes, like those of nations, are always more or less mythical, and
I give the story for what it is worth. Doubtless there is a gleam of
intelligence in it, for the old lady pronounces it odd that any one
should _determine_ to be a poet, and seems to have wished to hint
that the matter was determined earlier and by a higher disposing
power. There are few children who do not soon discover the charm of
rhyme, and perhaps fewer who can resist making fun of the Mrs.
Graftys, of Craven Street, Finsbury, when they have the chance. See
Haydon's Autobiography, Vol I. p.361.
[387] "I never saw the poet Keats but once, but he then read some
lines from (I think) the 'Bristowe Tragedy' with an enthusiasm of
admiration such as could be felt only by a poet, and which true
poetry only could have excited."--J. H. C., in Notes & Queries, 4th
s. x. 157.
[388] Haydon (Autobiography, Vol. I. p.379) says that he "strongly
suspects" Terry to have written the articles in Blackwood.
[389] The lodging of Keats was on the Piazza di Spagna, in the first
house on the right hand in going up the Scalinata. Mr. Severn's
Studio is said to have been in the Cancello over the garden gate of
the Villa Negroni, pleasantly familiar to all Americans as the Roman
home of their countryman Crawford.
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