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| show | 1772-1834
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| show | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 1797 or early 1798, contrasts, great beauty
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| show | Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 1797 or realy 1798
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| show | Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 1797 early 1798, comparisons
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| show | Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 1797 early 1798, contrast
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| "In consequence of a slight disposition,...here the Khan Kubbla" | show 🗑
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| "A damsel with a dulcimer/In a vision once I saw" | show 🗑
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| "I would build that dome in air/That sunny come! those caves of ice!" | show 🗑
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| show | Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, late 1797 early 1798, artistic poet
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| What is the connection of the damsel to the poem? | show 🗑
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| show | Attended Cambridge and became a radical, met Wordsworth in 1797, knowon as the "Sage of Highgate" met Keats in 1819, addicted to Opium and Laudanum, lonely poet
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| When did Coleridge meet Wordsworth | show 🗑
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| When did Coleridge meet Keats? | show 🗑
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| When was Kubla Khan published? | show 🗑
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| show | lyric in tone and manner, resembling a meditative poem and an ode, full of mystery and dread
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| George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron | show 🗑
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| When did George Gordon Byron become Lord Byron | show 🗑
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| show | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1812
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| George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron's bibliography | show 🗑
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| When was Childe Harold published? | show 🗑
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| What was George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron's greatest work | show 🗑
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| Biographia Literaria | show 🗑
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| Dejection: An Ode | show 🗑
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| Who was the "Sage of Highgate"? | show 🗑
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| show | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (late 1797 early 1798)
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron 1812
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron
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| English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | show 🗑
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, lyrics set to music, 1812
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, a tradegy
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| Beppo | show 🗑
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, using the ottava rima verse form
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1814, written about Lady Wilmot Horton, beautiful widow dressed in mourning at a ball
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| "She walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies/An all that's best of dark and bright/Meet in her aspect and her eyes" | show 🗑
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| show | George Gordon, Lord Byron, poem addressed to himself, aware of the passing of his youth
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| "Though the night was made for loving/And the day returns too soon" | show 🗑
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| "For the sword outwears its sheath/And the soul wears out the berast/And the heart must pause to breathe/And love itself have rest" | show 🗑
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| "So we'll go no more a-roving/So late into the night/Though the heart be still as loving/And the moon be still as bright" | show 🗑
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| "One shade the more, one ray the less/Had half impaired the nameless grace/Which waves in every raven tress" | show 🗑
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| "And on that cheek, and o'er that brow/So soft, so calm, yet eloquent/The smiles that win, the tints that glow/But tell of days in goodness spent" | show 🗑
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| show | William Blake, effects of oppression on the human spirit, Songs of Experience, negative view of London, naturalistic writer, life is determined by heredity and environment, keeps lines connected, writing about the poor in London, darkness, sadness
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| "I wander through each chartered street/Near where the chartered Thames does flow/And mark in every face I meet/Marks of weakness, marks of woe" | show 🗑
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| show | Ban--legal prohibition, should be happy if spelt ban, which is a wedding bann--read allowed in church
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| "How the chimney sweeper's cry/Every blackning church appalls/And the hapless soldier's sigh/Runs in blood down palace walls" | show 🗑
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| show | Veneral disease, children were born blind, diseases passed from prostituted to fathers and then to children, msot often syphillis
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| show | William Wordsworth, 1802, adresses John Milton calling for the need for a new and powerful poetic "voice" in Wordsworth's own time to correct the weaknesses of English society
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| "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour/England hath need of thee: she is a fen/Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen/Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower" | show 🗑
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| "Have forfeited their anciet English dower/Of inward hapiness. We are selfish men/Oh! raise us up, return to us again/And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power." | show 🗑
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| "Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart/Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea/Pure as the nake heavens, majestic, free/So didst thou travel on life's common way/In cheerful godlinessl and yet thy heart/The lowliest duties on herself did lay" | show 🗑
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| Composed Upon Westminster Bridge | show 🗑
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| "Earth has not anything to show more fair/Dull would he be of soul who could pass by/A sight so touching in its majesty" | show 🗑
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| show | William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, 1807
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| "All bright ant glittering in the smokeless air/Never did sun more beautifully steep/In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill/Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!" | show 🗑
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| The Destruction of Sennacherib | show 🗑
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| "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold/And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold/An the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea/When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee" | show 🗑
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| "And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail/And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal/And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword/Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord" | show 🗑
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| show | 1792-1822
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821, "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818, Percy's first major poetic work
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| Julian and Maddalo | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819, major long poem
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821, major long poem
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821, major long poem
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821, highly wrought elegy for Keats
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1812, not published until after his death
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| Epipsychidion | show 🗑
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| Ode to the West Wind | show 🗑
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| To a Skylark | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1832, about the Peterloo Massacre, the king in line 1 is George III, the insane king, historical references
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817, sonnet, greek name for Rameses II, who left monuments all over Egypt, central theme of the poem=the sin of pride
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| When did Percy Shelley arrive at Oxford? | show 🗑
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| "O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being/Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead/Are drive, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing" | show 🗑
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| "Drive my dead thoughts over the universe/Like withered levaes to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse/Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth/Ashes and sparks, my words among manking!" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley 1819, Ode tot eh West Wind
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| Apostrophe | show 🗑
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| "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!/Bird thou never wert--/That from Heaven, or near it/Pourest thy full heart/In profuse strains of unpremediated art" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820, To a Skylark
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820, To a Skylark
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820, To a Skylark
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| "What objects are the fountains/Of thy happy strain?" | show 🗑
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| "Waking or asleep/Thou of death must deem/Things more true and deep/Than we mortals dream/Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?" | show 🗑
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| "We look before and after/And pine for what is now/Our sincerest laughter/With some pain is fraught/Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought" | show 🗑
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| "Teach me half the gladness/That thy brain must know/Such harmonious madness/From my lips would flow/The world should listen then--as I am listening now" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1832, England in 1829, George III became insane late in life, historical references to Peterloo massacre, army kills people
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| "A people starved and stabbed in th'untilled field/An army, whome libeticide and prey/Makes as a two-edged sword to all who weild" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1832, England in 1819, something positive may come
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| "I met a treveler from an antique land/Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/Stand in the desert" | show 🗑
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| "Near them, on the sand/Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown/And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command/Tell that its sculptor well those passions read/Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things" | show 🗑
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| "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed/And on the pedestal, these words appear/My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817, Ozymandias, nothing left, Ozymandias thought that by the statue, he would be immortal, but even the statue is gone
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| When was Frankenstein published? | show 🗑
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| John Keats | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, 1818, a romance
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| The Fall of Hyperion | show 🗑
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| The Eve of St. Agnes | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, 1816, not historically accurate, similes (astronomy and cortez) sonnet in praise of Chapman's translation of Homer's Iliad, one of his best sonnets, high quality, limited because hes looking at one translation, importance of discovery, empathy
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| "Much have I traveled in th realms of gold/And many goodly states and kingdoms seen/Round many western islands have I been/Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold." | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, On Fist Loking into Chapman's Homer, 1816, comparison--similes that have to do wish discovery, traveling, exploration, his own literary exploration, then disvoery in reading, it made him feel like he discovered something, not historically corr
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| show | John Keats, 1816, believed greatness comes from one' ability to loose oneself in something bigger, greatness in art means you must loose yourself, importance of discovery through reading
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| When did Keats write On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, 1819, poignant, overemphasized failure of Keats's ability to establish a full and steady relationship with Fanny beacuse of his health, sonnet
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| show | 1819
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| "And watching, with eternal lids apart/Like nature;s patient, sleepless eremite/The moving waters at their priestlike task/Of pure ablution round earth's human shores" | show 🗑
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| "Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath/And so live ever--or else swoon to death" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, 1818, show his aspirations to love as well as to fame
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| "When I behold, upon the night's starred face/Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance/And think that I may never live to trace/Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats 1818 When I Have Fears, fear of dying and not accomplishing anything
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| show | John Keats, 1819, this poem is of a human being who seized upon the experience of a moment and, with all the art at his command, tried to turn his thoughts and feelings into words and patterns that might outlast the moment
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| "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk/Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains/One minute past, and Lethewards had sunk" | show 🗑
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| show | Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats, 1819
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| "Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget/What thou among the leaves hast never known/The weariness, the fever, and the fret/Here, where men sit and hear each other groan" | show 🗑
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| "Away! away! for I will fly to thee/Not charioted Bacchus and his pards/But on the viewless wings of Poesy" | show 🗑
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| "Clustered around by all her starry Fays/But here there is no light." | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats 1819 Ode to a Nightingale
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| "Now more than ever seems it rich to die/To cease upon the midnight with no pain/While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad/In such an ecstacy" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats 1819 Ode to a Nightingale
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| "The same that oftimes hath/Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam/Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats 1819 Ode to a Nightingale
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| "Was it a vision, or a waking dream?/Fled is that music; Do I wake or sleep?" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats 1819 Ode to a Nightingale
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| show | John Keats, 1819, sugests a new serene manner in Keat's poetry, air of detachment, looks backward to the techniques of personification and looks forward to a modern attitude toward nature as something independent of human beings' longings and fantasies
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| Style of Keat's To Autumn | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, To Autumn, early ripening period of autumn, stresses ripening period of fruit
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| show | John Keats, 1819, To Autumn, middle harvesting period of autumn, gleaner, harvesting period, gathering period
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| "Where are the songs of spring? Aye, where are they?/Think not of them, thou hast thy music too/While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day/And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, 1819, intricate rhyme scheme, narrative poem, opposites, based on an ancient legend, a Christian martyr Saint Agnes, who refused the attentions of a man she did not love, in this poem the hopeful Madeline is rewarded
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| show | January 21
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| show | Spenserian stanza form, a nine-line stanza with the rhyme scheme ababbcbcc, the first eight lines of the stanza are in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is an alexandrine--that is, a line of iambic hexameter, created by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Qu
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| show | John Keats 1819 The Eve of St. Agnes, a gift God offers to all
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| "Meantime, across the mors/Had come young Porphyro, with heart on fire/For Madeline" | show 🗑
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| "Mercy, Porphyro! hie thee from this place/They are all here tonight, the whole bloodthirsty race!" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats, 1819 On the Eve of St. Agnes
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| show | John Keates 1819 On the Eve of St. Agnes foods mentioned, contrast--bitter, cold, outside warm festivities inside, overlayed with sinister feeling, exotic foods mentioned came from the orient warm places unknown to England at the time
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| show | John keats 1819 On the Eve of St. Agnes
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| show | John Keats 1819 On the Eve of St. Agnes, she's maried and he'll leave
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| "My Madeline! sweet dreamer! lovely bride!" | show 🗑
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| "Arise-arise! the morning is at hand/The bloated wassailers will never heed" | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats
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| show | John Keats 1819 The Eve of St Agnes people died at the end, contrast, old and young, beadsman dies at the end
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| show | John Keats
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| show | 1771-1855
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| show | her literary art is expressed in forms--journals and letters--not considered "publishable", she spent more time transcribing the manuscripts of the male writer in the household, kept a journal of everyday life and reveal Dorothy's true self to us
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| When did William Wordsworth marry Mary Hutchinson? | show 🗑
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| The Journals | show 🗑
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| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | show 🗑
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| Political Justice | show 🗑
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| When did Percy Shelley meet Mary Wollstonecraft? | show 🗑
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| show | July 14 1813, Mary's half-sister Jane (later to be called Claire Clairmont)
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| History of a Six Weeks Tour | show 🗑
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| Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus | show 🗑
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| show | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1823, her second novel, sent off to her father to arrange its publication and to keep the profits for himself
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| show | December 1816
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| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's biography | show 🗑
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley | show 🗑
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| A Defense of Poerty | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley 1818, his first major poetic work
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley's bibliography | show 🗑
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| show | 1795-1821
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| Keats's first book of poetry | show 🗑
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| show | 25
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| John Keats bibliography | show 🗑
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| On The Vanity of Earthly Greatness | show 🗑
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| "The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls/Of mastodons, are billiard balls." | show 🗑
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| show | Arthur Guitterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
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| show | Arthur Guitterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
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| show | Arthur Guitterman, On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
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| show | Ogden Nash 1902
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| show | Very Like A Whale, Ogden Nash, 1902
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