...Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful or rather artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English...to pick out some lines from Hyperion and put a mark X to the false beauty proceeding from art, and one | to the true voice of feeling. Upon my soul 'twas...

...Hyperion. The highly inverted style of Paradise Lost requires in its author a mood of sustained artistry. "I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up."14 Keats's homely admonition epitomizes the experience of poets who sense that what they have to...

...very perspicuous claim: 'Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful or rather artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.'6 Earlier, in March 1818, he had posed the question — and it is perhaps not entirely playful...

...feeling." "Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful or artist's humour," he concluded, adding, "I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up" (KL 2.167). Three days later, he wrote in a similar vein to George and Georgiana Keats: 82 The Paradise...

...Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful or rather artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up. (LJK, 2: 167) Key to a reading of this letter, and by extension to a reading of "To Autumn" and the...

...to other sensations." He asks Reynolds to pick out some lines from " Hyperion," and put a mark, x, to the false beauty, proceeding from art, and 1, 2, to the true voice of feeling. It is just then that he discovers Chatterton to be " the purest writer in the English language." A...

...Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful or rather artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up. [2 1 September 1819.] Here it is plain enough that Keats has done with Miltonizing. But there is no...

...inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.' Here is a passage from the poem : Meanwhile in other realms big tears were shed, More sorrow like to...