Cytherea"; but it appears on good evidence that what he really wrote
was "Visit thou my Cythera." A false quantity in this same canto,
"Nept[)u]nus," cannot be explained away.]

[Footnote 21: Declared it in some very odd lines; for instance--

"Do gently murder half my soul, and I
Shall feel the other half so utterly!"]

[Footnote 22: See p. 52 as to Miss Brawne.]

[Footnote 23: I presume the "three masterpieces" are "The Eve of St.
Agnes," "Hyperion," and "Lamia"; this leaves out of count the short
"Belle Dame sans Merci," and the unfinished "Eve of St. Mark," but
certainly not because Dante Rossetti rated those lower than the three
others.]

[Footnote 24: There are some various readings in this poem (as here,
"wretched wight"); I adopt the phrases which I prefer.]

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as
possible, including obsolete and variant spellings, and inconsistent
hyphenation. Obvious typographical errors in punctuation have been
fixed. Corrections [in brackets] in the text are noted below:

page 110: typo fixed

In Feburary[February] 1818 Keats, Leigh Hunt, and Shelley,
undertook to write a sonnet each upon the river Nile.

page 150: typo fixed

which could not be made applicable or subservient to the purposes
of poetry. Many will remember the ancedote[ancedote], proper to
Haydon's "immortal dinner"

page 201: typo fixed

seems almost outside the region of criticism. Still, it is a
palpaple[palpable] fact that this address, according to its place
in

In Footnote 20, [)u] indicates a u-breve.

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