...upon the green shore and piped a silly pipe. . . . Had I been nervous about its being a perfect piece, and with that view asked advice and trembled over every page, it would not have been written. Endymion was to be a test, a trial of his powers T yet it was but a preparation for greaterjMngs to...

...given opportunity to go beyond the experimental stage. Yet how marvellous those experiments! IV i_" The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man." j Here Keats is declaring for a doctrine of poetic independence that he amply upholds in other utterances....

...— by myself. Had I been nervous about its being a perfect piece, & with that view asked advice, & trembled over every page, it would not have been written;...independently without Judgment. — I may write independently, & with Judgment hereafter. The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man: It cannot...

...another context. Had I been nervous about its being a perfect piece & with that view asked advice, 8c trembled over every page, it would not have been written;...for it is not in my nature to fumble— I will write independantly— I have written independently without Judgment.— I may write independently & with...

...essential, despite the recurrent anxieties and difficulties it caused. As he wrote to James Hessey, The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law & precept, but by sensation & watchfulness in itself - That which is creative must create itself. (Letters,...

...stop to pluck a leaf, finger a stone watchfulness was his word sensation and watchfulness in itself the Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man I leapt he said headlong into the sea. . . Earthwards Blue of Ireland quickens in the sea, green fish...

..."salvation." Keats had spoken of "salvation" the year before in a letter to his publisher John Hessey: "The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man" (October 8, 1818). Keats meant that poetry must save one from failure, which was all around in various...

...rose among the young. In another poem ("Memories of John Keats"), Levertov refers to Keats' words: "the Genius / of Poetry must work out / its own salvation in a man." Like Keats, she "leapt . . . / headlong into a sea . . ." and the courage to do so rested upon her...

...write indcpendantly. — I have written independently without Judgment — I may write independently C? with judgment hereafter. — The Genius of Poetry...own salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law & precept, but by sensation & watchfulness in itself — That which is creative must create itself...

...by myself — Had I been nervous about its being a perfect piece, & with that view asked advice, & trembled over every page, it would not have been written;...it is not in my nature to fumble — I will write 20 independently. — I have written independently without Judgment. — I may write independently,...