The Eve of St. Agnes : poem by John Keats based on a legend that maidens were allowed to have a sight of their future husbands on the eve of St. Agnes’ feast day.
... metals in his poetry. He uses sapphire to capture the beauty of the firmament. The line "Fairer than Phoebe's sapphire-regioned star, 11 in Ode to Psyche, and these lines from the poem The Eve of St. Agnes like a throbbing star Seen mid the sapphire heaven's deep repose 12 reinforce the poet's basic quality of sensuousness. In the latter poem Keats describes the colourful stained ...
... 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 and image curiously ...
... 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 in Hyperion . ...
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