He is studying closely, recovering his Latin, going to learn Greek, and seems altogether more rational than usual — but he is such a man of fits and starts he is not much to be depended on. Still he thinks of nothing but poetry as his being's end and aim, and sometime or other he will, I doubt not, do something valuable.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He is studying closely, recovering his Latin, going to learn Greek, and seems altogether more rational than usual — but he is such a man of fits and starts he is not much to be depended on. Still he thinks of nothing but poetry as his being's end and aim, and sometime or other he will, I doubt not, do something valuable." in the context of "James Augustus Hessey to John Taylor, (16 September 1818), as quoted by Edmund Blunden in Keats's Publisher, p. 56" to mean that wisdom is timeless.