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    Isabella; or The Pot of Basil
    Isabella; or The Pot of Basil
    Isabella; or The Pot of Basil
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    Isabella; or The Pot of Basil

    By John Keats

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    John Keats was an English Romantic poet.  Keats was a peer of other great poets such as Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley and his poems have become more popular after his death.  This edition of Isabella; or The Pot of Basil includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531284237
    Isabella; or The Pot of Basil
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    John Keats

    Born in London in 1795, John Keats is one of the most popular of the Romantic poets of the 19th century. During his short life his work failed to achieve literary acclaim, but after his death in 1821 his literary reputation steadily gained pace, inspiring many subsequent poets and students alike.

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      Isabella; or The Pot of Basil - John Keats

      ISABELLA; OR THE POT OF BASIL

      ..................

      John Keats

      KYPROS PRESS

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      Copyright © 2016 by John Keats

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Isabella; or The Pot of Basil

      Introduction.

      Isabella

      ISABELLA; OR THE POT OF BASIL

      ..................

      INTRODUCTION.

      In Lamia and Hyperion, as in Endymion, we find Keats inspired by classic story, though the inspiration in each case came to him through Elizabethan writers. Here, on the other hand, mediaeval legend is his inspiration; the ‘faery broods’ have driven ‘nymph and satyr from the prosperous woods’. Akin to the Greeks as he was in spirit, in his instinctive personification of the lovely manifestations of nature, his style and method were really more naturally suited to the portrayal of mediaeval scenes, where he found the richness and warmth of colour in which his soul delighted.

      The story of Isabella he took from Boccaccio, an Italian writer of the fourteenth century, whose Decameron, a collection of one hundred stories, has been a store-house of plots for English writers. By Boccaccio the tale is very shortly and simply told, being evidently interesting to him mainly for its plot. Keats was attracted to it not so much by the action as by the passion involved, so that his enlargement of it means little elaboration of incident, but very much more dwelling on the psychological aspect. That is to say, he does not care so much what happens, as what the personages of the poem think and feel.

      Thus we see that the main incident of the story, the murder of Lorenzo, is passed over in a line —‘Thus was

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