Record Number: 22609
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apollonian. Satan first "throws round his baleful eyes", then awakes his legions, he consults, he sets forward on his voyage - and just as he is getting to the end of it we see the Great God and our first parent, and that same satan all brought in one's vision - we have the invocation to light before we mount to heaven - we breathe more freely - we feel the great Author's consolations coming thick upon him at a time when he complains most - we are getting ripe for diversity - the immediate topic of the Poem opens with a grand Perspective of all concerned.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:unknown
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Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:31 Oct 1795
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
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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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Paradise Lost
Genre:Other religious, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:22609
Source:John Keats
Editor:John Barnard
Title:John Keats: The Complete Poems
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1988
Vol:n/a
Page:523
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. 523, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22609, accessed: 21 December 2024
Additional Comments:
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