ABSTRACT
Keats, Endymion (1818); review by John Hamilton Reynolds, Examiner, Oct. 11, 1818, pp. 648–649 (reprinted from Alfred, Exeter). Oliver and Castles (p. 648) were two government spies who stimulated workingmen into treasonous acts and then testified against them in capital trials. The “intelligent and patriotic woman” attacked by the Quarterly (p. 648) was Lady Morgan. Reynolds comes to the defense of his friend, and Hunt, though undoubtedly knowing the authorship of the piece, reprints it as evidence that Keats is not merely the protege of an Examiner coterie.
