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To: redfish who wrote (19856)4/27/2005 10:15:00 AM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
Sparking it in others doubly so.



To: redfish who wrote (19856)4/28/2005 3:15:29 AM
From: Solon  Respond to of 28931
 
Keats was/is one of my favorite poets. I recall that he worked his way through "The Fairie Queen" as well. So you are in good company! I confess that I only dabbled in Spencer, but much of Keats is memorized...

In "Ode to a Nightingale" he speaks of being "half in love with easeful death". As you know, he died of consumption in his early thirties and spent much of those last months in his bed. It is inconceivable that such injustices were planned by a Higher Power. The heart and the mind are seldom combined in such rich verdure while the body is in death. His thoughts were above the clouds. How fortunate we are...