17 January 2015

Delights.

Severen, Keats Listening to a Nightingale on Hampstead Heath, 1845


The poetical Character is not itself – it has no self – it is everything and nothing – It has no character – it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated – It has as much delight in an Iago as an Imogen. What shocks the virtuous philosopher delights the camelion Poet.

John Keats

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