Excerpt from John Keats: A Literary Biography A. Tradition may be established about a man of lasting genius, but the final word can never be said. Some warrant like this must be offered in excuse by the biographer who trespasses upon the field which Lord Houghton, Mr. Forman and Mr. Calvin have occupied and held with so much distinction. They have labored with the documents and collated the facts which give scholarly as surance to our estimate of Keats. Even judicial opinion must follow, more or less, the critical tradition which they have established. A later biographer therefore must acknowledge his great debt to them before he ventures to place his me morial stone upon the foundations of the builders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.