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Modern Language Association Pmla: This Content Downloaded From 103.216.206.39 On Sun, 02 Dec 2018 13:29:30 UTC
Author(s): G. R. Elliott
Source: PMLA, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Sep., 1921), pp. 315-331
Published by: Modern Language Association
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PUBLICATIONS
OF THE
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316 G. R. ELLIOTT
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THE REAL TRAGEDY OF KEATS 317
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318 G. R. ELLIOTT
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THE REAL TRAGEDY OF KEATS 319
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320 G. R. ELLIOTT
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THE REAL TRAGEDY OF KEATS 321
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822 G. R. ELLIOTT
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THE REAL TRAGEDY OF KEATS 323
" The rocks were silent, the wide sea did weave
An untumultuous fringe of silver foam
Along the flat brown sand; I was at home
And should have been most happy,-but I saw
Too far into the sea, where every maw
The greater on the less feeds evermore,-
But I saw too distinct into the core
Of an eternal fierce destruction,
And so from happiness I far was gone."
His glance passes lucidly from the outer to the inner source
of his unhappiness:
" Things cannot to the will
Be settled, but they tease us out of thought;
Or is it that imagination brought
Beyond its proper bound, yet still confined,
Lost in a sort of Purgatory blind,
Cannot refer to any standard law
Of either earth or heaven? It is a flaw
In happiness, to see beyond our bourn,-
It forces us in summer skies to mourn,
It spoils the singing of the Nightingale" (March 25, 1818).
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324 G. R. ELLIOTT
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THE REAL TRAGEDY OF KEATS 325
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326 G. R. ELLIOTT
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THE REAL TRAGEDY OF KEATS 327
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328 c. R. ELLIOTT
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THE REAL TRAGEDY OF KEATS 329
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330 G. R. ELLIOTT
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THE REAL TRAGEDY OF KEATS 331
G. R. ELLIOTT.
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