. John Keats; a literary biography ... ondon. His face wasflushed with fever. He had traveled a thousandmiles, six hundred on foot, in all kinds of weather,and the break in health was the beginning of theend. This cost of the northern tour was greater thanthe gain. He had seen mountains; but Keatswas not to be a poet of mountains. The firstmountains I saw weighed solemnly upon me,he wrote Bailey. The effect is wearing trip had not established any new current ofpoetic feeling. Of all the poems of the Scotchcycle only two sonnets arrest a profound did not find amid the hills the
. John Keats; a literary biography ... ondon. His face wasflushed with fever. He had traveled a thousandmiles, six hundred on foot, in all kinds of weather,and the break in health was the beginning of theend. This cost of the northern tour was greater thanthe gain. He had seen mountains; but Keatswas not to be a poet of mountains. The firstmountains I saw weighed solemnly upon me,he wrote Bailey. The effect is wearing trip had not established any new current ofpoetic feeling. Of all the poems of the Scotchcycle only two sonnets arrest a profound did not find amid the hills the presence thatdisturbs or the spirit that impels all thinkingthings. Keats had laid the lines of TinternAbbey close to his heart. Nevertheless thisScotch trip demonstrated that he had no vein ofmysticism. A Wordsworth, with his intense con-centration, would have observed from a singlenarrow channel of thought. Keats personalitywas too open, too adaptable, too sensitive toeverything for the mystics detachment fromtangible realities. 88. unwers\t^
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