Evidence: | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'the glittering staff unfurl'd' to 'Of warriors old with order'd spear and shield'. He then writes: 'The light and shade - the sort of black brightness - the ebon diamonding - the ethiop Immortality - the sorrow, the pain, the sad-sweet Melody - the Phalanges of Spirits so depressed as to be "uplifted beyond hope" - the short mitigation of Misery - the thousand Melancholies and Magnificences of this Page - leaves no room for anything to be said thereon but "so it is".' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
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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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Milton |
Title: | Paradise Lost |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 17372 | |
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Author: | John Keats | |
Editor: | John Barnard | |
Title: | John Keats: The Complete Poems | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 519-20 | |
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. 519-20, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17372, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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