_
Imagining
the poem winging its way
along like a bird.
along like a bird.
Keats
363-77.
Note the feeling of fate in the first appearance of
Apollonius.
PAGE 25. l. 377. _dreams. _ Lycius is conscious that it is an illusion
even whilst he yields himself up to it.
l. 386. _Aeolian. _ Aeolus was the god of the winds.
PAGE 26. l. 394. _flitter-winged.
_ Imagining the poem winging its way
along like a bird. _Flitter_, cf. flittermouse = bat.
PART II.
PAGE 27. ll. 1-9. Again a passage unworthy of Keats's genius. Perhaps
the attempt to be light, like his seventeenth-century model, Dryden, led
him for the moment to adopt something of the cynicism of that age about
love.
ll. 7-9. i. e. If Lycius had lived longer his experience might have
either contradicted or corroborated this saying.
PAGE 28. l.
Apollonius.
PAGE 25. l. 377. _dreams. _ Lycius is conscious that it is an illusion
even whilst he yields himself up to it.
l. 386. _Aeolian. _ Aeolus was the god of the winds.
PAGE 26. l. 394. _flitter-winged.
_ Imagining the poem winging its way
along like a bird. _Flitter_, cf. flittermouse = bat.
PART II.
PAGE 27. ll. 1-9. Again a passage unworthy of Keats's genius. Perhaps
the attempt to be light, like his seventeenth-century model, Dryden, led
him for the moment to adopt something of the cynicism of that age about
love.
ll. 7-9. i. e. If Lycius had lived longer his experience might have
either contradicted or corroborated this saying.
PAGE 28. l.
