Chapter IV
Keats rhymes in infancy; his first writings, the “Imitation of Spenser,” and some sonnets; not precocious as a poet; his sonnet on Chapman’s Homer; contents of his first volume, “Poems,” 1817; Hunt’s first sight of his poems in MS.; “Sleep and Poetry,” extract regarding poetry of the Pope school, &c.; the publishers, Messrs. Ollier, give up the volume as a failure.64