Keats
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Keats is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 05, 2024 and August 23, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Keats? There’s no doubt he’s charming”; “Keats, saturated in Spencer, took a long time to overcome this echoey quality”. It most often appears alongside Shakespeare, 1812, A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste.
Metadata
- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 05, 2024
- Last seen: August 23, 2024
Appears In
- Your Book Review: Don Juan
- Your Book Review: The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book (1936 Edition)
Related Pages
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- Shakespeare (2 shared issues)
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- 1812 (1 shared issues)
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- A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste (1 shared issues)
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- A Hymn to God the Father (1 shared issues)
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- Ada (1 shared issues)
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- Alabama (1 shared issues)
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- Albania (1 shared issues)
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- Aurora Raby (1 shared issues)
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- Baba (1 shared issues)
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- Bacchanalian revels (1 shared issues)
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- Blake (1 shared issues)
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- Blue-stockings (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
And one to tell the tale, plus two disarming Poor commoners who— well, you get the point. Blake? That’s been done. Keats? There’s no doubt he’s charming, But none too popular around this joint. Ovid’s just porn; Piet Hein’s too bent on harming
The weakness of much verse and some poetry of the past is partly traceable to unoriginal teachers of English or versification, who advised their pupils to saturate themselves in this or that poet, and then write. Keats, saturated in Spencer, took a long time to overcome this echoey quality, and emerge into the glorious highland of his Hyperion. Many lesser souls never emerge. It is valuable to know the poetry of the past, and love it. But the critical brain should carefully root out every echo, every imitation – unless some alteration in phrasing or meaning makes the altered phrase your own creation.