...irregularity'. 'They are flushed all over with the rich lights of fancy,' wrote the editor Francis Jeffrey, 'and so coloured and bestrewn with the flowers of...shut our hearts to the enchantments they so lavishly present."3 John Scott, the liberal editor of the London Magazine, was more particular. While insisting...

...be claimed for a first attempt: - but we think it no less plain that they deserve it; for they are flushed all over with the rich lights of fancy, and...sweetness, or to shut our hearts to the enchantments which they so lavishly present. Unlike his friend Shelley, Byron was no admirer of Keats. To some extent,...

...positive reviews of his works. He thus praised the verses of Endymion with the words: "[...] they are flushed all over with the rich lights of fancy, and...is impossible to resist the intoxication of their sweetness."61 The power of invention — to judge by Keats's statement — is the ability to sustain...