Questions tagged [john-keats]
Questions about the works of the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795 – 1821) and his life as a writer.
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"Shut, shut those juggling eyes, thou ruthless man!" in John Keats's "Lamia"
I am trying to understand the meaning of the following passage from John Keats's Lamia (full poem here):
"Shut, shut those juggling eyes, thou ruthless man!
Turn them aside, wretch! or the ...
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"Will make Elysian shades not too fair, too divine." in John Keats's "Lamia"
I am trying to understand the meaning of a verse from John Keats's Lamia (full poem here):
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Now, when the wine has done its rosy deed,
And every soul from human trammels freed,
No more so ...
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"Leave thee alone! Look back! Ah, Goddess, see" in John Keats's "Lamia"
I am trying to understand the meaning to the following excerpt from John Keats's Lamia (full poem here):
"Leave thee alone! Look back! Ah, Goddess, see
Whether my eyes can ever turn from thee!
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"His phantasy was lost, where reason fades,..." in John Keats's "Lamia"
I am trying to understand the meaning to the following excerpt from John Keats's Lamia (full poem here):
Thoughtless at first, but ere eve's star appeared
His phantasy was lost, where reason fades,
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"More beautiful than ever twisted braid..." in John Keats's "Lamia"
I am trying to understand the meaning to the following couplets from John Keats's Lamia (full poem here):
Ah, happy Lycius!—for she was a maid
More beautiful than ever twisted braid,
Or sigh'd, or ...
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Where did Wordsworth describe Keats's poetry as "very pretty paganism"?
While researching a question about one of Wordsworth's sonnets, I came across the article In the Ruins of Babylon: The Poetic “Genius” of John Keats by Paul Krause, which contains the following ...
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"Though Fancy's casket were unlock'd to choose" in John Keats's "Lamia"
I am trying to understand the meaning to the following excerpt from John Keats's Lamia (full poem here), and especially the fourth line below:
Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in ...
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How does ignorance make a barren waste in "To the Nile" by John Keats?
The sonnet "To the Nile" (1818) by John Keats reads as follows:
Son of the old Moon-mountains African!
Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile!
We call thee fruitful, and that very while
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Difficulty understanding the meaning of the word "attitude" in Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought
I am having trouble understanding Keats's use of the word "attitude" in these lines, and the explanation given ...
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Why is the 1820 Indicator version of La Belle Dame Sans Merci seen as more "politically correct"?
In his textbook Theory of Literature, Paul Fry writes at length about Jerome McGann's critique of Keats. As part of this he has this to say about the comparison between the 1819/1848 and the 1820 ...
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Meaning of the noun 'sweet' in Keats' "Endymion"
I am unsure about the meaning of sweet when used as a noun in John Keats' Endymion.
Here are some examples uses of the word:
Verse 224:
Thus ending, on the shrine he heap’d a spire
Of teeming sweets, ...
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Explain the grammar of "That not one fleecy lamb ..." in Keats' "Endymion"
I have a question regarding the meaning of a stanza from Keats' Endymion:
Among the shepherds, ’twas believed ever,
That not one fleecy lamb which thus did sever
From the white flock, but pass’d ...
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Has "To Autumn" ever ended the first stanza with something other than a period?
Is there an edition of Keats' poem To Autumn which ends the first stanza with something other than a period (full stop)? Do we have an edition of it that Keats saw through the press?
I think the ...
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Is Keats' swan with "neck of arched snow" an allusion to Milton's "swan with arched neck"?
I discovered something quite interesting today in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Here is Milton (this is the Archangel Raphael relating to Adam and Eve the creation of the world):
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Why was John Keats called a poet “who was kill’d off by one critique”?
In Canto XI of Lord Byron’s magnificent work Don Juan, romantic poet Keats is mentioned as a poet
who was kill’d off by one critique.
Why he was referred to like that? And which critique was it?
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