...Woodhouse, 27 October 1818, implicitly associating Godwinian 'preresolution' with Wordsworth's egotism: As to the poetical Character itself, (I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which...

...self. "As to the poetical Character itself," he wrote, "(I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime. . .) it is not itself- it has no self- it is every thing and nothing - It has no character - it enjoys...

...set forth most famously in differentiating himself from the "wordsworthian or egotistical sublime": As to the poetical Character itself, (I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which...

...against Wordsworth. As to the poetical Character itself, (I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian...which is a thing per se and stands alone) it is not itself—it has no self—it is every thing and nothing—It has no character—it enjoys light and...

...that sort of which, if I am any thing, I am a member; that sort distinguished from the Wordsworthiíin or egotistical sublime; which is a thing per se and...alone) it is not itself — it has no self ... It has as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen. letter to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818,...

...in which Keats declares that the poet "has no identity." "As to the poetical Character," he writes, it is not itself — it has no self — it is every thing and nothing — It has no character . . . not one word I ever utter can be taken for granted as an opinion growing out of my identical...

...again refers to Shakespeare as the prime exemplar of the self-annihilating sympathetic imagination: As to the poetical Character itself, (I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which...

...the Spiritual Man Continually', and in another sense, Keats's distinguishing 'the poetical Character' from 'the wordsworthian or egotistical Sublime; which is a thing per se and stands alone'.78 One need not endorse Blake's bifurcation of the Natural and the Spiritual to see that in...

...him, distances himself from 'the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime': 'the poetical Character . . . has no self - it is every thing and nothing - It has no character ... A Poet . . . has no Identity - he is continually in for - and filling some other Body. . . '73...

...Last Essays of Elia, ed. Jonathan Bate (Oxford: Oxford University Press, World's Classics, 1987), 195. 'As to the poetical Character itself, (I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which...