ABSTRACT
It is a singular pleasure to the few personal friends of Keats in England (who may still sometimes have to defend him against the old and worn out slanders) that in America he has <such a fine> always had a solid fame independent of the old English prejudices. This 2 I can well understand for inasmuch as his poetry has the charm of fresh & elastic youth living & revelling all thro’ it, at times transporting us unconsciously into its own classic world of nature, & at times so archly & prettily excusing its own many defects (always consequent on its fearlessness) I can well understand the <ardent> spontaneous efforts of youthfiill genius, finding such a genial world as America, should at once take root imperishably & as it were achieve a second birthright.
