ABSTRACT

Keats, Endymion (1818); Cham pion, June 7, 1818, pp. 362-364. According to Leonidas M. Jones, this review was probably not written by Reynolds, who had stopped contributing to the Champion by this date (and whose review of Endymion appeared in the Alfred of Exeter and was reprinted in the Examiner). The unknown reviewer defends Keats, but with an intelligent perception of both the strengths and weaknesses of Endymion. Especially perceptive is his observation that Endymion is “a representation and not a description of passion.” The allusion to Cicero as one who would not become a follower is to Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar II.i.151-152. This review was not continued, as promised.