ABSTRACT
Keats, Poems (1817); review by Josiah Conder, Eclectic Review, 2nd Series, VIII (Sept. 1817), 267-275. To see that Conder actually read each volume he reviewed with some attention, one need only compare this review with that of Shelley’s Alastor (above). Practically everything in this review of Keats’s Poems has been repeated by later critics – much of it by Keats himself in later years. Note (pp. 274-275) the qualms Conder (himself an aspiring young poet) has about possibly injuring Keats. Did he know Keats personally or did they have mutual acquaintances? The “friend [Keats] is content to please” is, of course, Leigh Hunt.
