Evidence: | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his form had not yet lost/ All her original brightness, nor appear'd' to 'Perplexes monarchs', and writes: 'How noble and collected an indignation against Kings, "and for fear of change perplexes Monarchs" etc. His very wishing should have had power to pull that feeble animal Charles from his bloody throne. "The evil days" had come to him; he hit the new System of things a mighty mental blow; the exertion must have had or is yet to have some sequences.' |
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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: | 17373 | |
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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: | 520-21 | |
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. 520-21, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17373, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
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