[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that fair field/ Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers,/ Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis/ Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain/ To seek her through the world." He writes: 'There are two specimens of a very extraordinary beauty in the "Paradise Lost"; they are of a nature as far as I have read, unexampled elsewhere - they are entirely distinct from the brief pathos of Dante - and they are not to be found even in Shakespeare - these are according to the great prerogative of poetry better described in themselves than by a volume. The one is in the fol[lowing] - "which cost Ceres all that pain" - the other is that ending "Nor could the Muse defend her son" - they appear exclusively Miltonic without the shadow of another mind ancient or modern.'