Chapter XI

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

plural of “affinity” — (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

surrounded by; in the middle of a group

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

(classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

plural of “beauty” — the qualities that give pleasure to the senses

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the qualities that give pleasure to the senses

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the past participle of “be”

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

earlier than; in front of

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

a mountain or tall hill

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

Bound written or printed works.

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the two together, not just one

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

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

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

possessive form of “chapman” — United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

not open or affording passage or access

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

plural of “comedy” — light and humorous drama with a happy ending

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

the act of examining resemblances

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

two items of the same kind

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

suitable to or characteristic of drama

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

A series of thoughts, images, or emotions during sleep.

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

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

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

plural of “effort” — earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

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

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading _ENDYMION._--II.

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 THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

past form of “enjoy” — derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

make better or improve in quality

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

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

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

divisible by two

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

an item of information that is typical of a class or group

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

plural of “example” — an item of information that is typical of a class or group

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

extend in one or more directions

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

-ing form of “experiment” — to conduct a test or investigation

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

the point or degree to which something extends

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

steadfast in affection or allegiance

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

plural of “fault” — a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

come upon, as if by accident; meet with

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

plural of “flaw” — an imperfection in an object or machine

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

ranking above all others

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

respectful deference

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

a base hit on which the batter scores a run

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

plural of “hymn” — a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

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

From this reading _ENDYMION._--II.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

not capable of being separated

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

plural of “instinct” — inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

any distinguished personage during the reign of James I

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637)

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

Englishman and romantic poet (1795-1821)

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

lacking in rigor or strictness

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

prefer or wish to do something

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

suitable for or suggestive of singing

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

-ing form of “maintain” — cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

an artist of consummate skill

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

United States poet (1869-1950)

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

plural of “meditation” — continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

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

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

based on the meter as a standard of measurement

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

plural of “model” — a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the natural satellite of the Earth

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

to a great degree or extent

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

a long wandering and eventful journey

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC - AD 17)

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

make a sweeping movement

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

something having the property of being analogous to something else

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

of or relating to a pastor

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

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

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

a separate part of a whole

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

literature in metrical form

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

plural of “poet” — a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

just preceding something else in time or order

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

make a promise or commitment

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

plural of “quality” — an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

restored to new life and vigor

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

bringing again into activity and prominence

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

covered with frost

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

a clergyman who watches over a group of people

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

a woman shepherd

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

a short musical composition with words

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

plural of “source” — the place where something begins, where it springs into being

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

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

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

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

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

the vital principle or animating force within living things

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

not in physical motion

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

To perceive flavor through the mouth.

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

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

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

in every part of a place, or for the whole of a period

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

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

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

activity leading to skilled behavior

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

a successful ending of a struggle or contest

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

consistent with fact or reality; not false

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

below or beneath something; less than

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

not firmly placed or set or fastened

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

plural of “usage” — the act of using

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the act of using

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other

From this reading In their day the English language had been to a large extent unfixed, and in their instinctive efforts to enrich and expand and supple it, poets had enjoyed a wide range of freedom both in maintaining old and in experimenting with new usages.

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

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

in the company of; together with

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

the words that are spoken

From this reading THE POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

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 POETRY: ITS QUALITIES AND AFFINITIES Revival of Elizabethan usages--Avoidance of closed couplets--True metrical instincts--An example--Rime too much his master--Lax use of words--Flaws of taste and training--Faults and beauties inseparable--Homage to the moon--A parallel from Drayton--Examples of nature-poetry--Nature and the Greek spirit--Greek mythology revitalized--Its previous deadness--Poetry of love and war--Dramatic promise--Comparison with models--Sandys's _Ovid--Hymn to Pan_: Chapman--Ben Jonson--The hymn in _Endymion_--'A pretty piece of paganism'--Song of the Indian maiden--The triumph of Bacchus--A composite: its sources--English scenery and detail--Influence of Wordsworth--Influence of Shelley--_Endymion_ and _Alastor_--Correspondences and contrasts--_Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_--Shelley on _Endymion_--Keats and Clarence's dream--Shelley a borrower--Shelley and the rimed couplet.

exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity

From this reading Spenser and the Spenserians, foremost among them William Browne; Drayton in his pastorals and elegies; Shakespeare, especially in his early poems and comedies; Fletcher and Ben Jonson in pastoral and lyrical work like _The Faithful Shepherdess_ or _The Sad Shepherd_; Chapman's version of Homer, especially the _Odyssey_ and the _Hymns_, and Sandys's of the _Metamorphoses_ of Ovid; these are the masters and the models of whom we feel his mind and ear to be full.

actively engaged in paid work

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

From this reading Throughout the four books of _Endymion_ we find Keats still working, more even than in his epistles and meditations of the year before, under the spell of Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.