Record Number: 17373

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his form had not yet lost/ All her original brightness, nor appear'd' to 'Perplexes monarchs', and writes: 'How noble and collected an indignation against Kings, "and for fear of change perplexes Monarchs" etc. His very wishing should have had power to pull that feeble animal Charles from his bloody throne. "The evil days" had come to him; he hit the new System of things a mighty mental blow; the exertion must have had or is yet to have some sequences.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

unknown

Time

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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

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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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Milton

Title:

Paradise Lost

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

17373

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:

520-21

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. 520-21, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17373, accessed: 11 March 2025

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Additional Comments:

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