Literary by-paths in old England . e Street, Westminster case may be inferred from the fact that shewas only of 127 tons register. In the technicallanguage of the shipwright, she was Brigantine 261 LITERARY BY-PATHS rig, with standing bowsprit, square stern, carvelbuilt, and eagles-head figurehead. The MariaCrowther was built at Chester in 1810, andwas primarily intended merely to trade betweenCardiff and Liverpool. Probably the voyage to ^ fuaM /;/, ICAL \V OKKS WILLIAM SHAKSTEAKE. mi. Keatss Copy of Shakespeare Naples was only a temporary departure from herusual route, for later she evidentl
Literary by-paths in old England . e Street, Westminster case may be inferred from the fact that shewas only of 127 tons register. In the technicallanguage of the shipwright, she was Brigantine 261 LITERARY BY-PATHS rig, with standing bowsprit, square stern, carvelbuilt, and eagles-head figurehead. The MariaCrowther was built at Chester in 1810, andwas primarily intended merely to trade betweenCardiff and Liverpool. Probably the voyage to ^ fuaM /;/, ICAL \V OKKS WILLIAM SHAKSTEAKE. mi. Keatss Copy of Shakespeare Naples was only a temporary departure from herusual route, for later she evidently returned tothe St. Georges Channel trade, and the vesselwas wrecked off the Isle of Man on November7th, 1837. It seems that the name of the cap-tain of the ship was Robert Dawes, and that he 262 IN OLD ENGLAND never realised the part he had played in the life-history of Keats is indicated by the fact thatnone of his descendants remember him to haveremarked on his having had the poet for apassenger. It was from the Maria Crowther. Keatss Last Sonnet that Keats penned that pathetic letter to his friendBrown in which he wrote: Land and sea, weak-ness and decline, are the great separators, butDeath is the great divorcer for ever. Among the few books he took with him on thisvoyage Keats included a copy of Shakespeares 263 LITERARY BY-PATHS Poems, the gift of his good friend Reynolds. Inthat old folio volume there are two intensely-interesting double pages. The first are at itscommencement, and while the right-hand leafrecords the original gift of the volume, the left-hand page perpetuates how it was presented byKeats to Severn a few weeks before the end,and in 1881 passed into the possession of SirCharles W. Dilke, the grandson of one of thepoets warmest friends. If, now, the volume isopened at the beginning of A Lovers Com-plaint, the opposite page will be seen to beara sonnet in the familiar handwriting of was his last message to the world. Retarded on the voyage down
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