Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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References to this poem

There was a naughty boy

There was a naughty boy
A naughty boy was he
He would not stop at home
He could not quiet be —
He took
In his knapsack
A book
Full of vowels
And a shirt
With some towels —
A slight cap
For night cap —
A hair brush,
Comb ditto,
New stockings
For old ones
Would split O!
This knapsack
Tight at’s back
He rivetted close
And followed his nose
To the north
To the north
And follow’d his nose
To the north—

There was a naughty boy,
And a naughty boy was he,
He ran away to Scotland
The people for to see —
There he found
That the ground
Was as hard
That a yard
Was as long,
That a song
Was as merry,
That a cherry
Was as red —
That lead
Was as weighty
That fourscore
Was as eighty
That a door
Was as wooden
As in England —
So he stood in
His shoes
And he wonder’d,
He wonder’d,
He stood in his
Shoes and he wonder’d —

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “There was a naughty boy.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.26 , University of Victoria, 12 July 2023. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_there_was_a_naughty_boy.html.

Chicago Style: Note

John Keats, “There was a naughty boy,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.26 , last modified 12th July 2023. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_there_was_a_naughty_boy.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “There was a naughty boy.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.26 , last modified 12th July 2023. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_there_was_a_naughty_boy.html.