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[Bombard <po...@ho...>]

S false and malicious criticisms had always been considered to have
caused the death of Keats_. My surprise was as great as his at my having
lived all those seventeen years in Rome and been so removed from the
great world, that this, a fact so interesting to me to know, had never
reached me. I had been unconsciously the painful means of disturbing
poor old Sir Walter with a subject so sore and unwelcome that I could
only conclude it must have been the immediate cause of his sudden
illness. Nothing could be farther from my nature than to have been
guilty of such seemingly wanton inhumanity; but I had no opportunity
afterwards of explaining the truth, or of justifying my conduct in any
way. This was the last striking incident connected with Keats's fame
which fell within my own experience, and perhaps may have been the last,
or one of the last, symptoms of that party-spirit which in the
artificial times of George IV. was so common even among poets in their
treatment of one another,--they assuming to be mere politicians, and
striving to be oblivious of their heart-ennobling pursuit. It only
remains for me to speak of my return to Rome in 1861, after an absence
of twenty years, and of the favorable change and the enlargement during
that ti