...immortality. 5484 Letter to John Taylor Poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity - it irth, And Melancholy marked him for her own. 4296 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat' Not all tha 5485 Letter to John Taylor If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not...

...w.openvms.digital.com Full-Screen Editing with EDT Poetry should, surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. — John Keats, Letter to John Taylor, 1818 OpenVMS provides several different text...

...According to the first of the famous "axioms" that he set down in a letter to Taylor of 27 February 1818, "Poetry . . . should strike the Reader as a wording...highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance" (Letters 1:238). This could not possibly come about if the reader did not bring his or her individual...

...language it was expressed I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity — it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance — 1nd Its touches of Beauty should never be half way thereby making the reader breathless instead...

...with its subject." And: "I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity— it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance." Keats 's own work meets these standards. The poems seem to unfold naturally, with sincerity and without...

...produce, is one kind of tribute we make to what Shakespeare has achieved : poetry, as Keats wrote, ' should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts'. But there is always the danger for the literary critic that he will begin to equate his own highest...

...letter of 1818 to John Taylor: "Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance" (1816-1820, p. 46). So romanticism allows that reader and spectator are not passive. As Barthes (1975)...

...Ist I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity - it should strike thé Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a Remembrance - (I, 238) Loin de chercher à imposer ses propres idées, le vrai poète doit aspirer...

...is true that, in a well-known letter of February 27, 1818, to the publisher John Taylor, Keats wrote that poetry "should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance."4 Keats offers this to Taylor, however, as one of those "axioms" that his poetry cannot...

...from their Centre. First, I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity; it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance. Second, its touches of Beauty should never be halfway, thereby making the reader breathless instead...