 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...his brother and sister-inlaw right before printing "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again": "[A] little change has taken place in my intellect...very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers" (Letters, 1 :214). At the end of his great creative period (September 22, 1819), however, he writes... | |
 | Keith D. White - Apollo (Greek deity) in literature - 1996 - 224 pages
...after his first encounter with it, although a letter to Bailey offers perhaps the best explanation: Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions,...intellectual powers As an instance of this — observe — 1 sat down to read King Lear once again the thing appeared to demand the prologue of a sonnet.... | |
 | Andrew Motion - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 702 pages
...and a new version of the 'deep eternal theme'. Shortly after completing them, he told his brothers: 'I think a little change has taken place in my intellect...long a time, have been a[d]dicted to passiveness.' Keats was loath to admit it, but his sense of recommitment had something to do with his recent visit... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Drama - 1999 - 426 pages
...the Land" — You shall hear whriher it will be Quarto or non Quarto, picture or non Picture. . . . I think a little change has taken place in my intellect lately — l cannot bear to be oninterested or onemployed, I, who for so long a time, liave been addicted... | |
 | Allan C. Christensen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 338 pages
...onwards, Keats lived in a progressively voracious state of self-enclosure, admitting to his brothers that a little change has taken place in my intellect lately...productions, than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.41 By now Keats was aware of being strong and determined although physically frail, and ever... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 204 pages
...determination and strength.' I call attention first to the sentences, ' Nothing is finer for the purpose of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. As an instance of this ... I sat down yesterday to read "King Lear" once again.' Their meaning is not clear. But Keats has... | |
 | Clive James - Literary Collections - 2007 - 924 pages
...with which we find it so much harder to come to terms than our ancestors did with mere regret. ttt Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions...very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. — KEATS TO HIS BROTHER, JANUARY 23, 1818 COMING FROM KEATS, the remark was either generous or nervous.... | |
 | 1948 - 324 pages
...ambition would be to furnish this lens. KEATS'S "PRELUDE" A STUDY OF THE POEMS OF KEATS UP TO ENDYMION "NOTHING is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers1," writes Keats in 1818, just on emerging from the first period of darkness we are entering... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1888 - 584 pages
...particular.' In other letters of nearly the same date, he writes of the development of his powers : - I think a little change has taken place in my intellect lately ; I cannot bear to bo uninterested or unemployed, I, who for so long a time have been addicted to passiveness. Nothing... | |
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I think a little change has taken place in my intellect lately — I cannot bear to be uninterested or unemployed, I, who for so long a time have been addicted to passiveness. 
