Record Number: 22619
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excluding "where soonest he might find /the serpent", and writes: 'Satan having entered the Serpent, and inform'd his brutal sense - might seem sufficient - but Milton goes on "but his sleep disturb'd not". Whose spirit does not ache at the smothering and confinement -the unwilling stillness - the "waiting close"? Whose head is not dizzy at the prosaible [sic] speculations of satan in the serpent prison - no poetry ever can give a greater pain of suffocation.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:unknown
Timen/a
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:22619
Source:John Keats
Editor:John Barnard
Title:John Keats: The Complete Poems
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1988
Vol:n/a
Page:526
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. 526, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22619, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
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