...n took on a hue Fierce and sanguineous. Between this time and the spring of 1820 he seems to have worked assiduously. Of course, worldly success was of more importance than ever. He began Hyperion , but had given it up in September, 1819, because, as he said, there were too many Miltonic inversions in it. He wrote Lamia after an attentive study of Dryden's versification. This period also pr...