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Record Number: 17372


Reading Experience:

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".'

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

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:

17372

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:

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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17372, accessed: 03 November 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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