 Of mortals each to each, against the blooms Of flowers, rush of rivers, and the tombs Of heroes gone ! Against his proper glory Has my own soul conspired : so my story Will I to children utter, and repent.  Endymion, a Poetic Romance - Page 190by John Keats - 1818 - 242 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Amy Lowell - Poets, English - 1925 - 702 pages
...and give up forever his heavenward aspirations. Very well conceived are his words: "... I have clung To nothing, lov'da nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream." This again is drama, as is the whole passage, which is also poetically excellent, although, in spots,... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 784 pages
...up his long search; he has been pursuing something beyond the "natural sphere" of man: I have clung To nothing, lov'da nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream IOI have been Presumptuous against love, against the sky, Against all elements, against the tie Of... | |
 | Stuart M. Sperry - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...reassess, a few lines later, the significance of his quest in a new and startling way: I have clung To nothing, lov'da nothing, nothing seen Or felt but...flowers, rush of rivers, and the tombs Of heroes gone! (iv.636-43) The very intensity of Endymion's otherworldly longing has fatally overtaxed the sustaining,... | |
 | Andrew Motion - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 702 pages
...convinced that his ambition is beyond the 'natural sphere' of man: I have clung To nothing, loved a nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream! OI...elements, against the tie Of mortals each to each. His conclusion is to settle for life with the Indian Maid in the realm of Pan, where the 'breathing'... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 199 pages
...least, in the fourth book, Endymion decides that the dream he is pursuing is false: "I have clung / To nothing, lov'da nothing, nothing seen / Or felt but a great dream!" (4.63638). 6 La Belle Dame recounts "The latest dream I ever dream'd / On the cold hill's side" (lines... | |
 | Christoph Loreck - Endymion (Greek mythology) - 2005 - 236 pages
...[...] Pan will bid Us live in peace, in love and peace among His forest wildernesses. I have clung To nothing, lov'da nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream ! [...]68 In those lines, Endymion revokes his quest for the divine love of Cynthia, calling her "a... | |
 | Martin Aske - History - 2005 - 212 pages
...language was noted by the poem's first readers, and indeed is surmised by Endymion himself : I have clung To nothing, lov'da nothing, nothing seen Or felt but a great dream ! (1v, 636-8) PG Patmore begins his review of the poem with the suggestive remark that Endymion, 'if... | |
 | Joel Faflak - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 336 pages
...opening figure of Saturn. When Endymion awakes for the final time, he discovers that he has "clung / To nothing, lov'da nothing, nothing seen / Or felt but a great dream" (4.636-38). He is left to realize that "there never liv'da mortal man, who bent / His appetite beyond... | |
 | 378 pages
...: Pan will bid Us live in peace, in love and peace among 635 His forest wildernesses. I have clung To nothing, lov'da nothing, nothing seen Or felt but...against the sky, Against all elements, against the tie 640 Of mortals each to each, against the blooms Of flowers, rush of rivers, and the tombs Of heroes... | |
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