Record Number: 17370
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phrases and lines: 'round he throws his baleful eyes'; 'At once, as far as Angel's ken, he views/ The dismal situation waste and wild'; 'sights of woe,/ Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace/ And rest can never dwell; hope never comes/ That comes to all'. He writes after line 75: 'One of the most mysterious of semi-speculations is, one would suppose, that of one Mind's imagining into another. Things may be described by a Man's self in parts so as to make a grand whole which that Man himself would scarcely inform to its excess. A Poet can seldom have justice done to his imagination - for men are as distinct in their conceptions of material shadowings as they are in matters of spiritual understanding: it can scarcely be conceived how Milton's Blindness might here ade [for aid] the magnitude of his conceptions as a bat in a large gothic vault'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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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:17370
Source:John Keats
Editor:John Barnard
Title:John Keats: The Complete Poems
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1988
Vol:n/a
Page:518
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. 518, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17370, accessed: 30 December 2024
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