Hunt calls Pope's translation of the moonlight picture from _Homer_ "a gorgeous misrepresentation" (_Ibid._, p. 35) and the whole translation "that elegant mistake of his in two volumes octavo." (_Foliage_, p. 32.)
[76] _Feast of the Poets_, p. 38. The same opinions are expressed in _The Examiner_ of June 1, 1817; in the preface to _Foliage_, 1818.
[79] Saintsbury, _Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860_, p. 220.
[80] Hunt, _Story of Rimini_, London, 1818, p. 11, 200 lines beginning with top of page. In the 1742 lines of the poem, there are 47 run-on couplets and 260 run-on lines. There are 7 Alexandrines and 21 triplets. In the edition of 1832 the number of triplets has been increased to 26. There are 46 double rhymes. In a study of the cæsura based on the first 200 lines there are 70 medial, 17 double cæsuras. The remaining 113 lines have irregular or double cæsura.
[81] Keats, _Lamia_, Bk. I, ll. 1-200. In the 708 lines of _Lamia_, there are 98 run-on couplets, 144 run-on lines, 39 Alexandrines and 11 triplets. The cæsura is handled with greater freedom than in the _Story of Rimini_.
[82] C. H. Herford, _Age of Wordsworth_, p. 83.
[84] _Leigh Hunt as a Poet, Fortnightly Review_, XXXVI: 226.
[87] From Homer, Theocritus, Bion, Moschus, Anacreon, and Catullus.
[90] Byron, _Letters and Journals_, IV, p. 238.
[91] Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, _Recollections of Writers_, p. 132.
[93] Hunt, _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries; with Recollections of the Author's Life and of his Visit to Italy_, p. 247.
[98] This refers to Keats's first published poem, the sonnet _O Solitude, if I must with thee dwell_, published (without comment) in _The Examiner_ of May 5, 1816.
[100] _Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries_, p. 257.
[102] Sharp, _Life and Letters of Joseph Severn_, p. 163.
[104] Mr. Forman, after a systematic search has been able to find no proof in either direction. (_Works_, III, p. 8.)
[108] A further account of the disastrous effects of his partisanship will be found in the discussion of the Cockney School, Ch. V.
[109] The _Century Magazine_, XXIII, p. 706.
[110] Palgrave, _Poetical Works of John Keats_, p. 269.