...another English romantic poet who was much absorbed in "the hateful siege of contraries" was Keats.7 Though a quarrel in the Streets is a thing to be hated,...fine; the commonest Man shows a grace in his quarrel. . . . This is the very thing in which consists poetry. Perhaps too easy, somewhat too simple. Perhaps...

...famous long letter of 14 February-3 May 1819 to his brother and sister-in-law in America, proposes that "Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine. ..." 40 Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus and Selected Prose, ed. Herbert Sussman (New York: Holt, Rinehart...

...This was Boycie as public actor — funny, profane, defamatory. Though a quarrel in the streets is to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest Man has grace in his quarrel. Seen by a supernatural Being our reasonings may take the same tone — though...

...my mind may 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,...it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.'11 Anger compels our respect, even against our will, unless it is so impotent, spiteful, or...

...passions — embodied in his comment of March 1819 to the George Keatses, "Though a quarrel in the street is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine" — never let him forget this connection, and it informs (sometimes at several removes) even the most...

...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, the energies displayed in it are fine. (n, 80; my italics) Brief and unobtrusive though it is, the italicized sentence raises a question that...

...my mind m[a]y fall into, as I am intertained with the alertness of a Stoat or the anxiety of a Deer? Though a quarrel in the Streets is a thing to be hated,...fine— This is the very thing in which consists poetry. . . . (John Keats) Even Locke (now Robertson) has a moment of delirious freedom when he simulates flight,...

...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 erron65 ecus they may be fine — This is the very thing in which consists poetry; and if so it is...

...leisure and disinterestedness, to a series of remarks in his more traditionally feisty, masculine vein: "Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine"; "Do you not think I strive — to know myself?"; "Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced";...

...poem's stanzas is an echo of an older line, from which the poem's Latin title is taken: see Terence. 3 Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated,...fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. JOHN KEATS, (1795-1821) British poet. Letters of John Keats, no. 1 23, ed. Frederick Page (1954). Letter,...