_ Adonis was a
beautiful
youth beloved
of Venus.
of Venus.
Keats
l.
294.
_new lips.
_ Cf.
l.
191.
l. 297. _Into another_, i. e. into the trance of passion from which he
only wakes to die.
PAGE 21. l. 320. _Adonian feast.
_ Adonis was a beautiful youth beloved
of Venus. He was killed by a wild boar when hunting, and Venus then had
him borne to Elysium, where he sleeps pillowed on flowers. Cf.
_Endymion_, ii. 387.
PAGE 22. l. 329. _Peris_, in Persian story fairies, descended from the
fallen angels.
ll. 330-2. The vulgarity of these lines we may attribute partly to the
influence of Leigh Hunt, who himself wrote of
The two divinest things the world has got--
A lovely woman and a rural spot.
It was an influence which Keats, with the development of his own
character and genius, was rapidly outgrowing.
l. 333. _Pyrrha's pebbles.
l. 297. _Into another_, i. e. into the trance of passion from which he
only wakes to die.
PAGE 21. l. 320. _Adonian feast.
_ Adonis was a beautiful youth beloved
of Venus. He was killed by a wild boar when hunting, and Venus then had
him borne to Elysium, where he sleeps pillowed on flowers. Cf.
_Endymion_, ii. 387.
PAGE 22. l. 329. _Peris_, in Persian story fairies, descended from the
fallen angels.
ll. 330-2. The vulgarity of these lines we may attribute partly to the
influence of Leigh Hunt, who himself wrote of
The two divinest things the world has got--
A lovely woman and a rural spot.
It was an influence which Keats, with the development of his own
character and genius, was rapidly outgrowing.
l. 333. _Pyrrha's pebbles.
