ABSTRACT
Keats, Endymion (1818); review by Peter George Patmore, London Magazine, I (April 1820), 380–389. Patmore, a friend of Hazlitt, was a regular contributor to the London Magazine, but this essay takes the form of a reader’s communication because Keats’s poem had appeared two years earlier. The distinction between “poem” and “poetry” that Patmore draws on page 381 probably derives from Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria; but as Patmore and other derivative critics who had been influenced by romantic poetics handled the concept, emphasis shifted from the poem as a whole to treat a work as merely a quarry from which the critic mined a “little cabinet of gems.”
