Record Number: 22619

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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

Time

n/a

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:

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Milton

Title:

Paradise Lost

Genre:

Other religious, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

22619

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:

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: 30 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

None