Isabella : poem by Keats published shortly before his death in 1821.
... striving, "to philosophise he dared not yet", but it was from the first the real sense and goal of his genius. On life he had like the others—Byron alone excepted—no hold; such work as Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes , in which he followed the romantic tendency of the time, was not Page 145 his own deeper self-expression; they are wonderful richly woven robes of sound and word ...
... was not yet full-orbed; towards the third and highest he was only striving, 'to philosophise he dared not yet', but it was from the first the real sense and goal of his genius." 2 Not in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, not even in the great Odes does Sri Aurobindo see the real soul of Keats: this "inner genius... lay in that attempt which, first failing in Endymion , was again resumed ...
... July 1497. Helped by Indian fishermen off the east coast of Africa, he reached Calicut on 20 May the next year. Almost simultaneously, the Spanish rulers also turned to overseas expansion. Queen Isabella supported the Genoese, Christopher Columbus, who had garnered from books he read that the Earth was round and the Eurasian continent did not measure more than 225 degrees; he imagined that Cathay— ...
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