Chatterton's genius and fate.
Keats dedicates his Endymion to his memory.
Whatever the
absolute merits of his writings, they are simply astonishing productions for a youth of sixteen.
He was not eighteen when he ended his unhappy life (Born Nov. 20, 1752; Died Aug. 25,

1770).

Time.

401. Sidney. Born 1554, Died 1586. See Spenser's Astrophel, and also his Ruines of

404. Lucan. Born 39, Died 65. He was scarcely "by his death approved." There
was no escape for him; and after his infamous unfaithfulness to his fellow conspirators he
deserved none. His Fharsalia, though farther advanced towards completion than Hyperion,
is unfinished,

above.

410. See Isaiah xiv. 9-10.

412. blind dark. So often the Lat. cæcus, Gr. Túpλos.

414. These individual empires are scarcely consistent with the absorption spoken of

417-20. This seems to mean: Traverse the universe in fancy; see how vast it is, what
a mere atom of it is this world of ours.

422, 23. I cannot explain these two lines.

199. 424. See Childe Harold, IV. lxxviii-clxxiv.

442. See Shelley's Preface: Keats "was buried in the romantic and lonely cemetery of
the Protestants in that city, under the pyramid which is the tomb of Cestius, and the massy
walls and towers, now mouldering and desolate, which formed the circuit of ancient Rome.
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies.
It might make one in love with death to think that one should be buried in so sweet a
place."

444. The Pyramid of Caius Cestius. See Murray's Rome.

447. Like flame, etc. i. e. in shape.

450. The cemetery had only lately been made.

453. If any wound is healed, or healing, do not renew it.

459. Shelley was to become it-"What Adonais is"-in a few months.

200. 462. Life is like some gaudy crystal canopy, through which the true colour of the
skies above cannot be seen.

465. Rome's azure sky, &c. Nothing material can adequately express eternal beauty.
The finest works of all the arts, and the exquisitest scenes of nature are but feeble represen-
tations of it.

472.

"Out of the day and night

A joy has taken flight."

474. There is terrible peril in mutual love, for the loved one may be lost; also in
love which wins no response there is dire distress and pain.

480. Comp. Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations, &c. passim.

482-2. i. e. through all creation.

484. as each are, &c.

He means: ""

as they are, each one, &c.

485. the fire for which all thirst = the celestial fire, the light of eternity.

490. i. e. those who shrink from quitting the earth, from soaring up in thought at least
into the empyrean.

495. The sign was soon answered.

Muse-poet, 211, 222, 256, 283. Poind, 369

Nightly, 226, 249, 338, 345, Prevent, 216.