Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

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To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles

Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speak
Definitively on these mighty things;
Forgive me that I have not eagle’s wings —
That what I want I know not where to seek:
And think that I would not be overmeek
In rolling out upfollow’d thunderings,
Even to the steep of Heliconian springs,
Were I of ample strength for such a freak.
Think too, that all those numbers should be thine;
Whose else? In this who touch thy vesture’s hem?
For when men star’d at what was most divine
With browless idiotism —o’erweening phlegm —
Thou hadst beheld the Hesperean shine
Of their star in the east and gone to worship them.

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.27 , University of Victoria, 19 August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_to_haydon_with_a_sonnet_written.html.

Chicago Style: Note

John Keats, “To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.27 , last modified 19th August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_to_haydon_with_a_sonnet_written.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.27 , last modified 19th August 2024. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_to_haydon_with_a_sonnet_written.html.