The nation . er-ing a pawnbrokers shop, he is Dick-ensesque, and so is his description of amock election for a Member of Parlia-ment in a debtors prison. He does notwrite to please or charm; obviously hekept his Diary — strong medicine atbest — for posteritys sake. Haydon wrote in a great age of diary-keeping. Preceding it was Boswells TheJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides withSamuel Johnson (1785), and Haydonadmired Boswcll. The example set byRousseaus (Confessions had shaken theair. Sir Walter Scott kept journals, sodid Dorothy Wordsworth, so did Gre-ville (who is second only to Boswcll),so d
The nation . er-ing a pawnbrokers shop, he is Dick-ensesque, and so is his description of amock election for a Member of Parlia-ment in a debtors prison. He does notwrite to please or charm; obviously hekept his Diary — strong medicine atbest — for posteritys sake. Haydon wrote in a great age of diary-keeping. Preceding it was Boswells TheJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides withSamuel Johnson (1785), and Haydonadmired Boswcll. The example set byRousseaus (Confessions had shaken theair. Sir Walter Scott kept journals, sodid Dorothy Wordsworth, so did Gre-ville (who is second only to Boswcll),so did Farington — the list could beextended to a long one — but in ahierarchy of the best among Englishwriters, Boswcll stands first and Hay-don third. In the Romantic age, Hay- Just what is the trouble with lovel she asked. He referred her to a collectionof poems, sonic delicate, sonicfrank, all dealing with the variousfacets of a many-facetedsubject: love. She could buy itat any bookstore — for $ by Eve Mcrriam fjf/ic </((aenu7/att c€otn/iany 60 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK 11. dons Diary occupies an essential andimportant position: through it we enterthe London world of Keats, CharlesLamb, Leigh Hunt, Wordsworth, Haz-litt (all of whom Haydon knew well),the world of British periodical Liberal-ism. With a searing, red-eyed glare,Haydon saw the weaknesses of Huntand Hazlitt. He also saw the ultimatemerits of Keats and Wordsworth. Mis-cast as a painter and propagandist forthe value of Lord Elgins Marbles, Hay-don was a supreme critic of life, menand literature — only himsell he couldnot save; he was doomed to a histrionicmartyrdom. HAYDONS forty-two-year war againstauthority with a capital A began whenhe left his fathers printing firm inPlymouth and came up to London toenroll as an art student under Fuseliat the Royal Academy. He overrode hisfathers distrust of his talents with thesame vigor that later he turned againstEusclis awareness of his defective vis-ion
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