Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt

Minutes are flying swiftly; and as yet
Nothing unearthly has enticed my brain
Into a delphic labyrinth — I would fain
Catch an unmortal thought to pay the debt
I owe to the kind poet who has set
Upon my ambitious head a glorious gain —
Two bending laurel sprigs — ’tis nearly pain
To be conscious of such a coronet.
Still time is fleeting, and no dream arises
Gorgeous as I would have it — only I see
A trampling down of what the world most prizes,
Turbans and crowns, and blank regality;
And then I run into most wild surmises
Of all the many glories that may be.

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.9 , University of Victoria, 8 April 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_on_receiving_a_laurel_crown_from.html.

Chicago Style: Note

John Keats, “On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.9 , last modified 8th April 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_on_receiving_a_laurel_crown_from.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.9 , last modified 8th April 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_on_receiving_a_laurel_crown_from.html.