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surpassed their parents.
PAGE 180. ll. 228-9. The key of the whole situation.
ll. 237-41. No fight has taken place. The god has seen his doom and
accepted the inevitable.
PAGE 181. l. 244. _poz'd_, settled, firm.
PAGE 183. l. 284. _Like . . . string._ In this expressive line we hear
the quick patter of the beads. Clymene has had much the same experience
as Oceanus, though she does not philosophize upon it. She has succumbed
to the beauty of her successor.
PAGE 184. ll. 300-7. We feel the great elemental nature of the Titans in
these powerful similes.
l. 310. _Giant-Gods?_ In the edition of 1820 printed 'giant, Gods?' Mr.
Forman suggested the above emendation, which has since been discovered
to be the true MS. reading.
PAGE 185. l. 328. _purge the ether_, clear the air.
l. 331. As if Jove's appearance of strength were a deception, masking
his real weakness.
PAGE 186. l. 339. Cf. i. 328-35, ii. 96.
ll. 346-56. As the silver wings of dawn preceded Hyperion's rising so
now a silver light heralds his approach.
PAGE 187. l. 357. See how the light breaks in with this line.
l. 366. _and made it terrible._ There is no joy in the light which
reveals such terrors.
PAGE 188. l. 374. _Memnon's image._ Memnon was a famous king of Egypt
who was killed in the Trojan war. His people erected a wonderful statue
to his memory, which uttered a melodious sound at dawn, when the sun
fell on it. At sunset it uttered a sad sound.
l. 375. _dusking East._ Since the light fades first from the eastern
sky.
BOOK III.
PAGE 191. l. 9. _bewildered shores._ The attribute of the wanderer
transferred to the shore. Cf. _Nightingale_, ll. 14, 67.
l. 10. _Delphic._ At Delphi worship was given to Apollo, the inventor
and god of music.
PAGE 192. l. 12. _Dorian._ There were several 'modes' in Greek music, of
which the chief were Dorian, Phrygian, and Lydian. Each was supposed to
possess certain definite ethical characteristics. Dorian music was
martial and manly. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, i. 549-53.
l. 13. _Father of all verse._ Apollo, the god of light and song.
ll. 18-19. _Let the red . . . well._ Cf. _Nightingale_, st. 2.
l. 19. _faint-lipp'd._ Cf. ii. 270, 'mouthed shell.'
l. 23. _Cyclades._ Islands in the Aegean sea, so called because they
surrounded Delos in a circle.
l. 24. _Delos_, the island where Apollo was born.
PAGE 193. l. 31. _mother fair_, Leto (Latona).
l. 32. _twin-sister_, Artemis (Diana).
l. 40. _murmurous . . . waves._ We hear their soft breaking.
PAGE 196. ll. 81-2. Cf. _Lamia_, i. 75.
l. 82. _Mnemosyne_, daughter of Coelus and Terra, and mother of the
Muses. Her name signifies Memory.
l. 86. Cf. _Samson Agonistes_, ll. 80-2.
l. 87. Cf. _Merchant of Venice_, I. i. 1-7.
l. 92. _liegeless_, independent--acknowledging no allegiance.
l. 93. _aspirant_, ascending. The air will not bear him up.
PAGE 197. l. 98. _patient . . . moon._ Cf. i. 353, 'patient stars.'
Their still, steady light.
l. 113. So Apollo reaches his divinity--by knowledge which includes
experience of human suffering--feeling 'the giant-agony of the world'.
PAGE 198. l. 114. _gray_, hoary with antiquity.
l. 128. _immortal death._ Cf. Swinburne's _Garden of Proserpine_, st. 7.
Who gathers all things mortal
With cold immortal hands.
PAGE 199. l. 136. Filled in, in pencil, in a transcript of _Hyperion_ by
Keats's friend Richard Woodhouse--
Glory dawn'd, he was a god.
FOOTNOTES:
[245:1] 'If any apology be thought necessary for the appearance of the
unfinished poem of Hyperion, the publishers beg to state that they alone
are responsible, as it was printed at their particular request, and
contrary to the wish of the author. The poem was intended to have been
of equal length with Endymion, but the reception given to that work
discouraged the author from proceeding.'
[247:1]
e.g. i. 56 Knows thee not, thus afflicted, for a god
i. 206 save what solemn tubes . . . gave
ii. 70 that second war
Not long delayed.
[247:2]
e.g. ii. 8 torrents hoarse
32 covert drear
i. 265 season due
286 plumes immense
[247:3]
e.g. i. 35 How beautiful . . . self
182 While sometimes . . . wondering men
ii. 116, 122 Such noise . . . pines.
[247:4] e.g. ii. 79 No shape distinguishable. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, ii.
667.
i. 2 breath of morn. Cf. _Paradise Lost_, iv. 641.
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK, TORONTO AND MELBOURNE
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Line numbers are placed every ten lines. In the original, due to space
constraints, this is not always the case.
On page 237, the note for l. 25 refers to "_Lamia_, i. 9, note". There
is no such note.
The following words appear with and without hyphens. They have been left
as in the original.
bed-side bedside
church-yard churchyard
death-bell deathbell
demi-god demigod
no-where nowhere
re-united reunited
sun-rise sunrise
under-grove undergrove
under-song undersong
The following words have variations in spelling. They have been left as
in the original.
AEolian Aeolian
Amaz'd Amazed
branch-charmed Branch-charmed
faery fairy
should'st shouldst
splendor splendour
The following words use an oe ligature in the poems but not in the notes
section.
Coeus
Coelus
Phoebe Phoebe's Phoebean
Phoenician