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ADONAIS:

AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN

KEATS, AUTHOR OF ENDYMION,

HYPERION &c.

Αστὴρ πρὶν μὲν ἔλαμπες ἑνὶ ζώοισιν ἐῶος.
Νῦν δὲ θανὼν λάμπεις ἕσπερος ἐν φθιμένοις.

1821.

PLATO.

PREFACE.

Φάρμακον ἦλθε, Βίων, τοτὶ σὺν στόμα, φάρμακον εἶδες
Πῶς τευ τοῖς χείλεσσι ποτέδραμε, κοὐκ ἐγλυκάνθη;
Τίς δὲ βροτὸς τοσσοῦτον ἀνάμερος ἢ κεράσαι τοι,
Ἢ δοῦναι λαλέοντι τὸ φάρμακον ; ἔκφυγεν ᾠδάν.

MOSCHUS, Epitaph. Bion.

It is my intention to subjoin to the London edition of this poem a criticism upon the claims of its lamented object to be classed among the writers of the highest genius who have adorned our age. My known repugnance to the narrow principles of taste on which several of his earlier compositions were modelled prove[s] at least that I am an impartial judge. I consider the fragment of Hyperion as second to nothing that was ever produced by a writer of the same years.

John Keats died at Rome of a consumption, in his twenty-fourth' year, on the of 1821; and was buried in the romantic and lonely cemetery of the protestants in that city, under the pyramid which is the tomb of Cestius, and the massy walls and towers, now mouldering and desolate, which formed the circuit of ancient Rome. The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter

It was on the 23rd of February 1821 that Keats died. He was in his twenty-sixth year. -ED.

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