Into a sort of oneness, and our state Is like a floating spirit's. But there are Richer entanglements, enthralments far More self-destroying, leading by degrees, To the chief intensity: the crown of these Is made of love and friendship, and sits high... Endymion, a Poetic Romance - Page 40by John Keats - 1818 - 242 pagesFull view - About this book
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...human being there are Richer entanglements, enthralments far More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, To the chief intensity : the crown of these Is made...friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity. 39 All its more ponderous and bulky worth Is friendship, whence there ever issues forth A steady splendour;... | |
| Meyer Howard Abrams - Romanticism - 1973 - 564 pages
...objects outside ourselves. But there are enthralments far More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, To the chief intensity: the crown of these Is made...friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity. . . . But at the tiptop, There hangs by unseen film, an orbed drop Of light, and that is love . . .... | |
| Paul De Man - Literary Criticism - 340 pages
..."self-destroving": But there are Richer entanglements, enthrallments far More self-destroying, leading, by degrees. To the chief intensity: the crown of these Is made of love and friendship . . . lEndymion, I, lines 797ff.) "Self-destroying" is obviously used in a positive sense here, to... | |
| Hermione de Almeida - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 429 pages
..."there are / Richer entanglements, enthrallments far / More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, / To the chief intensity: the crown of these / Is made...friendship, and sits high / Upon the forehead of humanity" (I, 798-803). At the other extreme, we are reminded of the singular intensity of mood at the end of... | |
| John Keats, Robert Gittings - Literary Collections - 1995 - 324 pages
...In every place where infant Orpheus slept. 795 Feel we these things? — that moment have we slept Into a sort of oneness, and our state Is like a floating...worth Is friendship, whence there ever issues forth 805 A steady splendour; but at the tip-top, There hangs by unseen film, an orbed drop Of light, and... | |
| Warren Stevenson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 166 pages
...spirit's. But there are Richer entanglements, enthralments far More self-destroying, leading by degrees To the chief intensity: the crown of these Is made...friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity. (1.795-802) Keats goes on to symbolize the distilled essence of friendship and love as "an orbed drop... | |
| George Hughes - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 274 pages
...spirit's. But there are Richer entanglements, enthralments far More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, To the chief intensity. The crown of these Is made...friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity. (796-803) Between the composition of these lines in April 1817, and the correction sent to Taylor in... | |
| Jeffrey N. Cox - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 304 pages
...Thermometer" to explore "Richer entanglements, enthralments far / More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, / To the chief intensity: the crown of these / Is made of love and friendship" (i: 798-801). Keats had always seemed to identify the poet as one who is not self-concentrated, who... | |
| Susan J. Wolfson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 324 pages
...and distillation of pleasurable experience, "leading, by degrees, /To the chief intensity" (799-800): at the tip-top, There hangs by unseen film, an orbed drop Of light, and that is love. (1.805-7) As "full alchemiz'd" suggests, Keats's metaphor is a chemical alembic or beaker, with the... | |
| Stanley Plumly - Poets, English - 2008 - 410 pages
.../ Than the mere nothing that engenders them." A few lines later, "light" takes on other senses — "at the tip-top, / There hangs by unseen film, an orbed drop / Of light, and that is love"; "in the end, / Melting into its radiance, we blend, / Mingle, and so become party of it"; and "that... | |
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