charactry

Updated: May 3, 2025

There is something deeply tragic in the short story of Keats's life. The seeds of consumption were in him; he felt the stirrings of a potent genius, but he knew that he could not wait for it to unfold, but must die Before high-piled books in charactry Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson