The poetical works (1906)

Keats, John (1795-1821)

INTRODUCTION

POSTHUMOUS AND FUGITIVE POEMS

POEMS WRITTEN LATE IN 1819

LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED TO FANNY BRAWNE

SONNET Written on a Blank Page in Shakespeare's Poems, facing “A Lover's Complaint.”

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[Written at the close of Canto II, Book V, of “The Faerie Queene.”]

In after-time, a sage of mickle lore
Yclep'd Typographus, the Giant took,
And did refit his limbs as heretofore,
And made him read in many a learned book,

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And into many a lively legend look;
Thereby in goodly themes so training him,
That all his brutishness he quite forsook,
When, meeting Artegall and Talus grim,
The one he struck stone-blind, the other's eyes wox dim.

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