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On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
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'''"On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again"''' is a short [[sonnet]] by [[John Keats]].
== Composition ==
The poem was composed in 1818, written in the margin of a replica of [[Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] works, and published posthumously on November 8, 1838 in The Plymouth and Devenport Weekly Journal.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)</ref><ref name=":0"></ref> In a letter from January 23, 1818, Keats writes, "I sat down yesterday to read King Lear once again; the thing appeared to demand the prologue of a sonnet".<ref></ref>
== Poem ==
O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute!
Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away!
Leave melodizing on this wintry day,
Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute:
Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute,
Betwixt damnation and impassion'd clay
Must I burn through; once more humbly assay
The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit.
Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion,
Begetters of our deep eternal theme,
When through the old oak forest I am gone,
Let me not wander in a barren dream,
But when I am consumed in the fire,
Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
=== Structure ===
The poem has a rhyme scheme of ABBA ABBA CDCD EE and is fourteen lines long.
== Response ==
It is arguable that [[King Lear]] was the most significant Shakespearean play for Keats, and it inspired him to move on from [[Endymion (poem)|Endymion]] to begin working on [[Hyperion (poem)|Hyperion]], which he said would be written in "a more naked and Grecian manner".<ref name=":0" /><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Other scholars have argued that "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again" acts as one of Keats' 'review' poems - written in response to the burgeoning group of literary critics of the day, therefore placing it alongside poems like [[On First Looking into Chapman's Homer]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Others argue that the sonnet's position as a prologue places Keats in collaboration with Shakespeare, and that the poem indicates Keats' status as an active reader.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Sources ==
[[Category:Poetry]]
== Composition ==
The poem was composed in 1818, written in the margin of a replica of [[Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] works, and published posthumously on November 8, 1838 in The Plymouth and Devenport Weekly Journal.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)</ref><ref name=":0"></ref> In a letter from January 23, 1818, Keats writes, "I sat down yesterday to read King Lear once again; the thing appeared to demand the prologue of a sonnet".<ref></ref>
== Poem ==
O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute!
Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away!
Leave melodizing on this wintry day,
Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute:
Adieu! for once again the fierce dispute,
Betwixt damnation and impassion'd clay
Must I burn through; once more humbly assay
The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit.
Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion,
Begetters of our deep eternal theme,
When through the old oak forest I am gone,
Let me not wander in a barren dream,
But when I am consumed in the fire,
Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
=== Structure ===
The poem has a rhyme scheme of ABBA ABBA CDCD EE and is fourteen lines long.
== Response ==
It is arguable that [[King Lear]] was the most significant Shakespearean play for Keats, and it inspired him to move on from [[Endymion (poem)|Endymion]] to begin working on [[Hyperion (poem)|Hyperion]], which he said would be written in "a more naked and Grecian manner".<ref name=":0" /><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Other scholars have argued that "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again" acts as one of Keats' 'review' poems - written in response to the burgeoning group of literary critics of the day, therefore placing it alongside poems like [[On First Looking into Chapman's Homer]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> Others argue that the sonnet's position as a prologue places Keats in collaboration with Shakespeare, and that the poem indicates Keats' status as an active reader.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== Sources ==
[[Category:Poetry]]
http://bit.ly/2X7Nr8p
