...cloudy wings to keep Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an indescribable feud; So do...with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. What do we learn from these sonnets? Simply that the marbles have set the young poet's imagination...

...fluttering, elusive mental grasp of the vast and incomprehensible universe — " Grecian grandeur " mingled with the " rude Wasting of old Time — with a billowy main A sun, a shadow of a magnitude It is a partial re-echo of that overwhelming sense of wonder and awe Keats experienced in first reading...

...eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do those wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur...billowy main — A sun — a shadow of a magnitude. ("On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," 1790) On the one hand, "a billowy main," "the rude wasting of old Time";...

...eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do those wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur...billowy main — A sun — a shadow of a magnitude. ("On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," 1790) On the one hand, "a billowy main," "the rude wasting of old Time";...

...looking at the sky. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That...billowy main— A sun— a shadow of a magnitude. With this sonnet he wrote another, addressed to Haydon, asking him to forgive me that I cannot speak...

...evident in the following lines: So do these wonders a most dizzy pain That mingles Grecian grandure with the rude Wasting of old Time — with a billowy main— A sun — a shadow of magnitude.6 ID the poem itself, Keats, unlike Wordsworth, tries to incorporate the past and the external...

...manifest integrity. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud; So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That...billowy main — A sun — a shadow of a magnitude. (9-14) This technique, which appears in several early sonnets, becomes especially prominent in the...

...987654321 For Irving Massey, with much thanks and affection Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an indescribable feud; So do...—with a billowy main, A sun, a shadow of a magnitude. John Keats, "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" Contents Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction:...

...compromising example of the Elgin Marbles he had first seen at the British Museum in 1817 when they caused him "a most dizzy pain / That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude / Wasting of old Time" ("On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," lines 11-13)Finally, and by way of contrast with Keats, there is the...

...morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud: 10 So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles...the rude Wasting of old Time - with a billowy main Sonnet on a Picture ofLeander Come hither all sweet maidens soberly, Down-looking aye, and with a chasten'd...