Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1917 — When Keats Won the Critics. [ARTICLE]

When Keats Won the Critics.

There will doubtless be keen competition for the MS of Keats’ "Isabella or the Pot of Basil,” for the poem is specially prized by all true lovers—and their name is legion—of this rare and richly gifted poet It is not only the most perfect setting of Boccaccio’s perfect story, but on its first appearance it was greeted with enthusiasm by cotemporary critics who had hitherto been so cruelly unjust to the author. It llshed, side by side with that unfinished masterpiece, “Hyperion,” which, if Keats had not been overruled by his publishers, would never have been given to the world.—London Chronicle.