Spenserian Stanza

John Keats (1795–1821) · Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats · 1848

In after-time, a sage of mickle lore
Yclep’d Typographus, the Giant took,
And did refit his limbs as heretofore,
And made him read in many a learned book,
And into many a lively legend look;
Thereby in goodly themes so training him,
That all his brutishness he quite forsook,
When, meeting Artegall and Talus grim,
The one he struck stone-blind, the other’s eyes wox dim.

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First published in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848). First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1] [2]

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John Keats (1795–1821). “Spenserian Stanza.” First published in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848). Text: Poem Index, https://poemindex.org/john-keats/spenserian-stanza/. Append #L14 to cite line 14, or #L4-L9 for lines 4–9.

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