![]() For it was in part by falling in love with the poetry of Keats and others that Gosse initiated the process that precipitated the crisis. Without such a generational rupture, it seemed to him, nobody could claim to be a fully independent, realised person. While he had been dropping acid and dropping (temporarily) out of college, I’d been reclining under a tree with John Keats. And surely there was nothing rebellious in that.Įdmund Gosse, that great forerunner of adolescent mutiny, might have disagreed with him. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The trouble with you,” an old friend recently declared to me, “is that you have always been a conformist.” He meant that I had never undertaken that necessary radical break with my parents and their ideals and interests. ![]()
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