Excerpt from Poems, Vol. 5

The best poetry of Keats is contained in so small a space that a certain number of his readers know it all by heart. The sonnet on Chapman's Homer needs no learning - one can hardly do other than know it. "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and the Odes - at any rate the "Autumn", the "Nightingale", and the "Grecian Urn" - remain in the memory by their beauty and perfection; and of the "Melancholy" and the "Psyche" a part remains in even the unpractised mind. Add to these some stanzas from "St. Agnes' Eve", a phrase or two from "Isabella", some passages from "Hyperion", two or three fine sonnets, perhaps a passage or two from "Endymion" - but these are doubtful - and we have the best of Keats. It is altogether above price; that it is so much, rather than that it is so little, is wonderful, seeing that the poet died at twenty-six, and that his genius was hampered by the worst of taste.

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