Chapter V

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a church associated with a monastery or convent

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

with few mistakes

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

recognized or made known or admitted

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “activity” — any specific behavior

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

a positive feeling of liking

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

later than; following

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

(of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

third-person singular of “animate” — heighten or intensify

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

plural of “anticipation” — an expectation

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the qualities that give pleasure to the senses

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

plural of “brother” — a male with the same parents as someone else

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

to be able to, or to be allowed to

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

take exception to

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the driver of a chariot

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

a person who is in charge

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

not open or affording passage or access

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

English romantic poet (1772-1834)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

third-person singular of “communicate” — transmit information

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

an alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

carefully weighed

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

third-person singular of “consist” — originate

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “contrast” — the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “convention” — a large formal assembly

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

two items of the same kind

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

the process of gradually becoming inferior

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

give pleasure to or be pleasing to

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

instructive (especially excessively)

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

no longer in use

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

increase twofold

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

suitable to or characteristic of drama

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

an abstract part of something

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a division of the United Kingdom

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (“whole” is often used informally for “wholly”)

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

a specially long, formal letter

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

at any time

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

imaginative re-creation

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “exception” — a deliberate act of omission

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

plural of “experiment” — the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “express” — mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

a deliberately false or improbable account

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

descend in free fall under the influence of gravity

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

plural of “form” — the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

grant freedom to; free from confinement

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the state of being friends (or friendly)

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (“full” in this sense is used as a combining form)

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

yet to be or coming

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

Christian martyr; patron saint of England; hero of the legend of Saint George and the Dragon in which he slew a dragon and saved a princess (?-303)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

past form of “hamper” — prevent the progress or free movement of

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the aggregate of past events

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

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From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

a formal entry into an organization or position or office

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

existing as an essential constituent or characteristic

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

resulting from one's intentions

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

a native or inhabitant of Italy

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

used when the thing doing the action is also its object

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

plural of “joy” — the emotion of great happiness

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

Englishman and romantic poet (1795-1821)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

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From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

immediately past

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

(Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

English film actress (1913-1967)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions on one's way of life.

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

expressing deep emotion

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

how something is done or how it happens

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

English poet (1621-1678)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

based on the meter as a standard of measurement

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

a favorite saying of a sect or political group

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

plural of “move” — the act of deciding to do something

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

a brief written record

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

a feast day and the seven days following it

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

used to mean any person in general, including the speaker

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

a set of two similar things considered as a unit

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “philip” — Englishman and husband of Elizabeth II (born 1921)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “poem” — a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

literature in metrical form

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the head of the Roman Catholic Church

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

most frequent or common

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

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From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

release, as from one's grip

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

plural of “restraint” — the act of controlling by restraining someone or something

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

restored to consciousness or life or vigor

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

covered with frost

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a relationship between two lovers

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

exposing human folly to ridicule

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

from a time in the past until now

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “sonnet” — a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599)

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

the vital principle or animating force within living things

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “stage” — any distinct time period in a sequence of events

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

Maintained an upright posture.

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the property of being physically or mentally strong

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

plural of “symptom” — (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

plural of “system” — instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

with regard to technique

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

plural of “thought” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

walk on one's toes

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

plural of “use” — the act of using

From this reading Technically considered, the volume consists almost entirely of experiments in two metrical forms: the one, the Italian sonnet of octave and sestet, not long fully re-established in England after being disused, with some exceptions, since Milton: the other, the decasyllabic or five-stressed couplet first naturalized by Chaucer, revived by the Elizabethans in all manner of uses, narrative, dramatic, didactic, elegiac, epistolary, satiric, and employed ever since as the predominant English metre outside of lyric and drama.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a vivid mental image

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

interest and variety and intensity

From this reading And the spirit which animates him is essentially the spirit of delight: delight in the beauty and activities of nature, in the vividness of sensation, in the charm of fable and romance, in the thoughts of friendship and affection, in anticipations of the future, and in the exercise of the art itself which expresses and communicates all these joys.

the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

United States jazz musician (1904-1943)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a flaw or weak point

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

used to ask for information about something

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

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From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

in the company of; together with

From this reading The note of Keats's early volume is accurately struck in the motto from Spenser which he prefixed to it:-- What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty?

a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)

From this reading THE 'POEMS' OF 1817 Spirit and chief contents of the volume--Sonnets and rimed heroics--The Chapman sonnet--The 'How many bards' sonnet--The sex-chivalry group--The Leigh Hunt group--The Haydon pair--The Leander sonnet--Epistles--History of the 'heroic' couplet--The closed and free systems--Marlowe--Drayton--William Browne--Chapman and Sandys--Decay of the free system--William Chamberlayne--Milton and Marvell--Waller--Katherine Philips--Dryden--Pope and his ascendency--Reaction: The Brothers Warton--Symptoms of Emancipation--Coleridge, Wordsworth and Scott--Leigh Hunt and couplet reform--Keats to Mathew: influence of Browne--_Calidore_: influence of Hunt--Epistle to George Keats--Epistle to Cowden Clarke--_Sleep and Poetry_ and _I stood tiptoe_--Analysis of _Sleep and Poetry_--Double invocation--Vision of the Charioteer--Battle-cry of the new poetry--Its strength and weakness--Challenge and congratulation--Encouragements acknowledged--Analysis of _I stood tiptoe_--Intended induction to _Endymion_--Relation to Elizabethans--Relation to contemporaries--Wordsworth and Greek Mythology--_Tintern Abbey_ and the three stages--Contrasts of method--Evocation _versus_ Exposition.

a late time of life

From this reading The element in which his poetry moves is liberty, the consciousness of release from those conventions and restraints, not inherent in its true nature, by which the art had for the last hundred years been hampered.