 He may have possessed an innate poetic sensibility, but his early works were clearly those of a young man learning his craft.His first attempts at verse were often vague, languorously narcotic and lacking a clear eye.His poetic sense was based on the conventional tastes of his friend Charles Cowden Clarke, who first introduced him to the classics, and also came from the predilections of Hunt's "Examiner", which Keats read as a boy.