Keats expresses in his letters a profound admiration for the old masters of English poetry, Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton, in comparison with whom he felt all modern poets to rank very low indeed. Though he speaks of Scott and Byron as "Literary kings", his letters contain scant praise of their compositions. Leigh Hunt, Moore, Southey and Crabbe met with no approbation from Keats. Of contemporary poets he admired Wordsworth, perhaps, as the greatest, though he believed even the author of Lyrical Ballads to be guilty of violating that axiom which asserts that all poetry should be great and unobtrusive".

Keats himself was humble in the aweinspiring presence of poetry, at whose shrine he considered himself a mean worshipper, allowed to enter only because he carried with him the incense of Beauty and Truth.

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