ABSTRACT
Keats, Endymion (1818); review by John Wilson Croker, Quarterly Review, XIX (April 1818), 204–208. [Issue appeared September 1818.] The “game of bouts-rimes” (p. 206) is that in which a person improvises a poem for which a series of incongruous rhyme words had been supplied. Shelley is known to have written such poems in Italy, but there seems to be no evidence that Keats ever did so, though he dashed off an acrostic to Georgianna Keats in June 1818.
