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Record 17370

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phrases and lines: 'round he throws his baleful eyes'; 'At once, as far as Angel's ken, he views/ The dismal situation waste and wild'; 'sights of woe,/ Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace/ And rest can never dwell; hope never comes/ That comes to all'. He writes after line 75: 'One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another. Things may be described by a Man's self in parts so as to make a grand whole which that Man himself would scarcely inform to its excess. A Poet can seldom have justice done to his imagination - for men are as distinct in their conceptions of material shadowings as they are in matters of spiritual understanding: it can scarcely be conceived how Milton's Blindness might here ade [for aid] the magnitude of his conceptions as a bat in a large gothic vault'.
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: 17370  
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: 518
  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. 518, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17370, accessed: 28 March 2024

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