Record Number: 17374
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'Anon out of the earth a fabric huge/ Rose like an exhalation' to 'yielded light/ As from a sky' and writes: 'What creates the intense pleasure of not knowing? A sense of independence, of power, from the fancy's creating a world of its own by the sense of probabilities. We have read the Arabian Nights and hear there are thousands of those sorts of Romances lost - we imagine after them - but not their realities if we had them nor our fancies in their strength can go further than this Pandemonium - "Straight after the doors opening" etc. "rose like an exhalation" - '
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
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(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Paradise Lost
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:17374
Source:John Keats
Editor:John Barnard
Title:John Keats: The Complete Poems
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1988
Vol:n/a
Page:521
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. 521, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17374, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
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