The Odes of John KeatsBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1983 - 330 pages Argues that Keat's six odes form a sequence, identifies their major themes, and provides detailed interpretations of the poems' philosophy, mythological references, and lyric structures. |
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Page 167
... grape ) . The eventual completion of the destiny of his hero presented certain difficulties to Keats : once the hero had aban- doned a quest for Melancholy which would take him to death and Lethe , and had decided to live , the question ...
... grape ) . The eventual completion of the destiny of his hero presented certain difficulties to Keats : once the hero had aban- doned a quest for Melancholy which would take him to death and Lethe , and had decided to live , the question ...
Page 179
... grape of Proserpine , that poison fruit , but the grape of Joy . The triumph of the stanza comes in its last line , another of Keats's " false " syntactic parallels . We expect that some enlightenment will follow " His soul shall taste ...
... grape of Proserpine , that poison fruit , but the grape of Joy . The triumph of the stanza comes in its last line , another of Keats's " false " syntactic parallels . We expect that some enlightenment will follow " His soul shall taste ...
Page 184
... grape and the tasting of sadness their most acute form . Of course there are intellectual difficulties with the proposition " Sensation is a path to Truth " ; these are brought into visible and paradoxical form by Keats's use of ...
... grape and the tasting of sadness their most acute form . Of course there are intellectual difficulties with the proposition " Sensation is a path to Truth " ; these are brought into visible and paradoxical form by Keats's use of ...
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