Keats, Lamia, Isabella [etc.]

Keats, Lamia [etc.] (1820); Monthly Review, 2nd Series, XCII (July 1820), 305–310. This was one of the reviews that attempted to stem the tide of hostile criticism that had threatened to engulf Keats’s poetic reputation. The critic’s preference for Hyperion over the odes parallels Shelley’s choice and reflects the taste engendered by a classical education.