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Record 17369

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openings of great Poems, more particularly where the action begins - that of Dante's Hell. Of Hamlet, the first step must be heroic and full of power; and nothing can be more impressive and shaded then the commencement of the action here - "Round he throws his baleful eyes -" '
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: unknown
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:John Keats
Age Unknown
Gender Male
Date of Birth 31 Oct 1795
Socio-economic group: n/a
Occupation: poet
Religion: atheist
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Milton
Title: Paradise Lost
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17369  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Keats
  Editor: John Barnard
  Title: John Keats: The Complete Poems
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1988
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 517
  Additional comments: The marginalia is transcribed in Appendix 4 of this edition.

Citation: John Keats, John Barnard (ed.), John Keats: The Complete Poems (London, 1988), p. 517, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17369, accessed: 28 March 2024

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