ABSTRACT
In the years after the Atlantic Monthly article and before the time of the publication of Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke’s Recollections of Writers in 1879, Clarke had become even more benign and distanced from the politics of the Keats circle. His antagonism with the late Haydon and his immediate hurt at Haydon’s account of Keats dwindled. Clarke, indeed, was luckier, happier and more successful than most of the Keats circle. He moved from his father’s school, which was renowned for its enlightened teaching methods and curricula and of which Clarke was deservedly proud, into publishing, starting a bookselling business in 1820 and moving into music publishing in 1829. Clarke died in 1877, before he could accomplish his desire of producing a biography of Keats. It was left to Mrs Clarke to collect together his papers and articles, and to publish them together as recollections of various writers.
