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Excerpt from An Interpretation of Keats's Endymion
My ideas with respect to it I assure you are very low - and I would write the subject thoroughly again but I am tired of it and think the time would be better spent in writing a new Romance which I have in my eye for next summer.1 And some time later to Reynolds I have copied my Fourth Book, and shall write the Preface soon. I wish it was all done; for I want to forget it, and make my mind free for something new.2 And then the unintelligent and unfair criticism with which the poem was received by most of those who noticed it, and, what was almost worse, the indifference of the greater part of the literary world, would offer but a slender inducement to enter upon an explanation of its meaning. If even the few friends who took up his defence failed to interpret it rightly, what could be expected from those who began to read it with minds prejudiced against the author? So he held his peace. He probably felt as unwilling to explain his allegory as a humorist would be to explain one of his jokes that had fallen flat, and moreover he would know that any such defence would only give occasion for fresh ridicule.
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