Sexist
John Bayley, 10 December 1987
Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare
by R.S. White.
Athlone, 250 pp., £25, March 1987,0 485 11298 1 Show More
by R.S. White.
Athlone, 250 pp., £25, March 1987,
“... The artist Benjamin Haydon said of Keats, probably with affectionate disapproval, that ‘one day he was full of an epic poem! – another, epic poems were splendid impositions on the world, – never for two days did he know his own intentions.’ Haydon’s canvases have something in common with Keats’s more ambitious poems in that they lack the basic confidence of genre; they are trying to do something new according to an old recipe ... ”