Keats, Lamia, Isabella [etc.]

Keats, Lamia [etc.] (1820); review by John Scott, London Magazine, II (Sept. 1820), 315–321. The “new Edinburgh Professor of Moral Philosophy” (p. 315) was John Wilson of Blackwood’s Magazine. Scott’s comments on the literary injustices perpetrated by political partisans of both camps are very true and important. And though Scott’s attempts to make Keats more tolerant of shopkeepers (pp. 316–317) surely miss the point of Keats’s poems, he does put his finger on a fundamental limitation of Keats’s poetic vision by contrasting Keats’s narrow intensity with the broader sympathies of Lamb’s “Elia” essay on the South Sea House. Rosamund Grey (p. 317) is also by Lamb.