Chapter XXI: Book III

PAGE 191. l. 9. _bewildered shores._ The attribute of the wanderer transferred to the shore. Cf. _Nightingale_, ll. 14, 67.

l. 10. _Delphic._ At Delphi worship was given to Apollo, the inventor and god of music.

PAGE 192. l. 12. _Dorian._ There were several 'modes' in Greek music, of which the chief were Dorian, Phrygian, and Lydian. Each was supposed to possess certain definite ethical characteristics. Dorian music was martial and manly. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, i. 549-53.

l. 13. _Father of all verse._ Apollo, the god of light and song.

ll. 18-19. _Let the red . . . well._ Cf. _Nightingale_, st. 2.

l. 19. _faint-lipp'd._ Cf. ii. 270, 'mouthed shell.'

l. 23. _Cyclades._ Islands in the Aegean sea, so called because they surrounded Delos in a circle.

l. 24. _Delos_, the island where Apollo was born.

PAGE 193. l. 31. _mother fair_, Leto (Latona).

l. 32. _twin-sister_, Artemis (Diana).

l. 40. _murmurous . . . waves._ We hear their soft breaking.

PAGE 196. ll. 81-2. Cf. _Lamia_, i. 75.

l. 82. _Mnemosyne_, daughter of Coelus and Terra, and mother of the Muses. Her name signifies Memory.

l. 86. Cf. _Samson Agonistes_, ll. 80-2.

l. 87. Cf. _Merchant of Venice_, I. i. 1-7.

l. 92. _liegeless_, independent--acknowledging no allegiance.

l. 93. _aspirant_, ascending. The air will not bear him up.

PAGE 197. l. 98. _patient . . . moon._ Cf. i. 353, 'patient stars.' Their still, steady light.

l. 113. So Apollo reaches his divinity--by knowledge which includes experience of human suffering--feeling 'the giant-agony of the world'.

PAGE 198. l. 114. _gray_, hoary with antiquity.

l. 128. _immortal death._ Cf. Swinburne's _Garden of Proserpine_, st. 7.

Who gathers all things mortal
With cold immortal hands.

PAGE 199. l. 136. Filled in, in pencil, in a transcript of _Hyperion_ by Keats's friend Richard Woodhouse--

Glory dawn'd, he was a god.

FOOTNOTES:

[245:1] 'If any apology be thought necessary for the appearance of the unfinished poem of Hyperion, the publishers beg to state that they alone are responsible, as it was printed at their particular request, and contrary to the wish of the author. The poem was intended to have been of equal length with Endymion, but the reception given to that work discouraged the author from proceeding.'

[247:1]

e.g. i. 56 Knows thee not, thus afflicted, for a god
i. 206 save what solemn tubes . . . gave
ii. 70 that second war
Not long delayed.

[247:2]

e.g. ii. 8 torrents hoarse
32 covert drear
i. 265 season due
286 plumes immense

[247:3]

e.g. i. 35 How beautiful . . . self
182 While sometimes . . . wondering men
ii. 116, 122 Such noise . . . pines.

[247:4] e.g. ii. 79 No shape distinguishable. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, ii. 667.

i. 2 breath of morn. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, iv. 641.

HENRY FROWDE, M.A. PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Line numbers are placed every ten lines. In the original, due to space constraints, this is not always the case.

On page 237, the note for l. 25 refers to "_Lamia_, i. 9, note". There is no such note.

The following words appear with and without hyphens. They have been left as in the original.

bed-side bedside
church-yard churchyard
death-bell deathbell
demi-god demigod
no-where nowhere
re-united reunited
sun-rise sunrise
under-grove undergrove
under-song undersong

The following words have variations in spelling. They have been left as in the original.

Æolian Aeolian
Amaz'd Amazed
branch-charmed Branch-charmèd
faery fairy
should'st shouldst
splendor splendour

The following words use an oe ligature in the poems but not in the notes section.

Coeus
Coelus
Phoebe Phoebe's Phoebean
Phoenician