ABSTRACT
The conversation of Keats was in the highest degree interesting, and his spirits good, excepting at moments when anxiety regarding his brother’s health dejected them. The letter of Shelley’s Remains, from Mr. Finch, seems to be calculated to give a very false idea of Keats. That his sensibility was most acute, is true, and his passions were very strong, but not violent, if by that term, violence of temper is implied. The master-passion of Keats’s drama was jealousy. It was offered to Drury Lane or Covent Garden, and rejected. But that rejection is no proof of its demerits, for after the review of his Endymion in the Quarterly, it is not likely, had it been a masterpiece, that it would have been accepted; and following the example of Mr. Griffiths’ play, which was brought out twenty years after its rejection, Keats’s may yet make its appearance.
