Lord Byron on John Keats (1820)
“Here are Johnny Keats’ piss-a-bed poetry, and three novels by God knows whom… No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.”
Nobody snarks like Byron. Nobody.
ReplyDeleteI agree! No one else has quite mastered such a difficult and delicate art.
ReplyDelete