...my mind m[a]y fall into, as I am entertained with the alertness of a Stoat or the anxiety of a Deer? Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated,...our reasoning[s] may take the same tone — though erronious they may be fine -This is the very thing in which consists poetry; and if so it is not so...

...that power. As we know from a famous letter, Keats enjoyed the vigour and animation of dispute — "Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be...fine; the commonest Man shows a grace in his quarrel" — and Keats shows in this same flight of confession and speculation a sympathy for even misconceived...

...the essence of such activity is the reader's imagination.46 It may be elicited sporadically by life ("Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine" [KL 2:80]), but imaginative creations can be designed to elicit it. (Keats found certain engravings...

...are fledge, and we go thro' the same air and space without fear.2 And about a year later he wrote: Though a quarrel in the Streets is a thing to be hated,...Man shows a grace in his quarrel — By a superior •To Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818, op. cit., pp. 226-7. Although he actually wrote, as the last...

...religious sentiments of the poet not mucli needs to be written. In one of his letters he thus meditates : Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated,...the same tone; though erroneous, they may be fine. On one occasion he falls into the vulgar impiety of juxtaposing our Saviour and Socrates. That the...

...the self-examination originates with a violent blow. Keats expressed the moral paradox when he wrote, "Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine." That "quarrel in the streets" or even revolution can be made by ballot or bullet, and if ballots are...