Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology

Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

References to this poem

Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition

  • The church bells toll a melancholy round,
  • Calling the people to some other prayers,
  • Some other gloominess, more dreadful cares,
  • More heark’ning to the sermon’s horrid sound.
  • Surely the mind of man is closely bound
  • In some black spell; seeing that each one tears
  • Himself from fireside joys, and Lydian airs,
  • And converse high of those with glory crown’d.
  • Still, still they toll, and I should feel a damp,
  • A chill as from a tomb, did I not know
  • That they are dying like an outburnt lamp;
  • That ’tis their sighing, wailing ere they go
  • Into oblivion; — that fresh flowers will grow,
  • And many glories of immortal stamp.

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MLA Style: Works Cited

Keats, John. “Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, by G. Kim Blank. Edition 3.12 , University of Victoria, 11 September 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_written_in_disgust_of_vulgar_superstition.html.

Chicago Style: Note

John Keats, “Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition,” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.12 , last modified 11th September 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_written_in_disgust_of_vulgar_superstition.html.

Chicago Style: Bibliography

Keats, John. “Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition.” Mapping Keats’s Progress: A Critical Chronology, Edition 3.12 , last modified 11th September 2021. https://johnkeats.uvic.ca/poem_written_in_disgust_of_vulgar_superstition.html.