To the Sky. Lark

Hail to the better finit!
Bind them never went,
That from the anim, or merit.
Ponnect thy full heart

In propose Thars of un premeditated art

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the most important gain was the friendship of the schoolmaster's son, Charles Cowden Clarke.

At the age of fifteen

Selection of Poetry for Life-work. he was apprenticed to a surgeon; but though he studied

surgery four years and
took a hospital course,

he

never practised. About the time that he decided to give up sur

gery and devote him

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self wholly to poetry,
he met Leigh Hunt,
then conspicucus
figure in London lit-
erary circles. Within
a short time he made
the acquaintance also
of Wordsworth, Cole-
ridge, Shelley, William
Hazlitt, and the artists
B. R. Haydon and
Joseph Severn.

First Publications.
-At the suggestion of
friends Keats in 1817

published a volume of poems. It contained little meriting serious attention except two sonnets, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, and On the Grasshopper and the Cricket. These should have attracted attention from the magazines; but they seem to have been noticed only by Hunt's paper and a few others which Hunt influenced to review the volume.

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