"For a few brief years there was intrepid courage with high ambition, with cheerfulness, with friendship; and then, all of a sudden, death came, and one more youthful reputation began to fade into the dead and crumbled past."

"For a few brief years there was intrepid courage with high ambition, with cheerfulness, with friendship; and then, all of a sudden, death came, and one more youthful reputation began to fade into the dead and crumbled past."

"In these canvases, I thing the spirit of Keats is expressed as it has never been expressed before - Keats in his love of beauty and in his love of colour, Keats in his power of vision and in his delight in dream, Keats in his poetic spirituality."

"First, it seems to me that the claims of William Stott cannot be overlooked. He has painted several masterpieces, which it does not fall to the lot of many painters to achieve in a lifetime His ’Wood Nymph’ is a picture for the National Gallery. He gets little recognition.