Skip to item: of 244
Information about this record Back to top
Open in Universal viewer
Open in Mirador IIIF viewer

The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎52r] (108/244)

This item is part of

The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

Transcription

This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.

Apply page layout

1892 THE STORY OF GIF FORD KEATS
593
usually full of frolic, fun, and animal spirits, but subsiding on
occasion into the quietly and deeply serious or into a mood of dreamy
abstraction ; tremulously sensitive also to the beautiful or the noble
in every form, and roused always to impetuous wrath by any mention
of a mean or dishonourable action. Already for two years he had
been a special favourite in that London and Hampstead circle of men
of letters and artists—Leigh Hunt the chief of them and the oldest,
but the painter Haydon, Charles Cowden Clarke, John Hamilton
Eeynolds, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Charles Armitage Brown, and
Joseph Severn also well remembered—among whom he had found
•congenial refuge on abandoning the profession of surgeon-apothecary
for which he had been brought up, and for which he had actually
•qualified himself by some years of apprenticeship and by subsequent
.attendance in one of the London hospitals. Poetry had become his
all-absorbing passion ; and, having a small income from his share in
a family fund that had been left under trust for the support of him-
sself, two younger brothers, and a sister, he had been able to follow
his bent, and devote himself wholly to a literary life. Among the
friends amid whom he had been moving the expectation of what he
would ultimately be and do had been from the first almost boundless ;
and it was they that had induced him to publish the little trial-
volume of 1817, containing a selection of the small miscellaneous
pieces which he had written up to that date. The volume had
attracted no public attention at the time, though it is memorable
enough now on various grounds, and above all as containing those
lines in which the young poet declared his consciousness that it was
but a prelude, a mere tuning of the strings, in preparation for some
thing higher and greater :—
O for ten years, that I may overwhelm
Myself in poesy, so I may do the deed
That my own soul has to itself decreed !
The Endymion was the first consequence of this ecstatic vow.
' A long poem,' he had said, ' is the test of invention'; and, in spite
of the dissuasions of Leigh Hunt, he had resolved to put himself to
this test, and had chosen the Greek legend of Endymion and the
Moon-Goddess for his subject. ' It will be a test of invention,'
lie said, ' if I can make 4,000 lines out of this one bare circumstance
and fill them with poetry.' Eight months of fitful exertion, partly in
seclusion in the Isle of Wight and other retreats in the South of
[England, but mainly at Hampstead, had produced the 4,000 hues;
,and in April, 1818, as has been said, the poem was out.
At the time of its publication Keats was rusticating in Devonshire ;
and, though he was back in London in June, it was only to prepare
for a long walking-tour in Scotland in company with his friend
,€harles Brown. Passing through the English Lake-district, they

About this item

Content

The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

Extent and format
1 volume (120 folios)
Physical characteristics

The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

Written in
English in Latin script
View the complete information for this record

Use and share this item

Share this item
Cite this item in your research

The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎52r] (108/244), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F126/28, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023318122.0x00006d> [accessed 28 March 2024]

Link to this item
Embed this item

Copy and paste the code below into your web page where you would like to embed the image.

<meta charset="utf-8"><a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023318122.0x00006d"> <em>The Nineteenth Century</em> , No 182, Apr 1892 [&lrm;52r] (108/244)</a>
<a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023318122.0x00006d">
	<img src="https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000001524.0x0003a7/Mss_Eur_F126_28_0108.jp2/full/!280,240/0/default.jpg" alt="" />
</a>
IIIF details

This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100000001524.0x0003a7/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images

Use and reuse
Download this image