The Beauty of the Bard

Question 1

And they were strange to me,

Answer 1

as may betide
With vases

JOHN KEATS,
“Ode on Indolence,” lines 9-10

Question 2

“… in our unimaginative days, Habeas Corpus’d as we are,

Answer 2

out of all
wonder, curiosity and fear …”

JOHN KEATS,
review of Richard III, in Champion, December 21,1818

Question 3

O Isle spoilt by the Milatary

Answer 3

words found by John Keats scratched on the glass
of his lodgings at Newport on the night of April 15,1817]

Question 4

—we imagine after it—

Answer 4

JOHN KEATS,
note on his copy of Paradise Lost, 1.706-30

Question 5

Its feet were tied
With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving

Answer 5

JOHN KEATS,
“I had a dove and the sweet dove died,” lines 3-4

Question 5

Its feet were tied
With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving

Answer 5

JOHN KEATS,
“I had a dove and the sweet dove died,” lines 3-4

Question 6

and evenings steep’d in honeyed indolence

Answer 6

JOHN KEATS,
“Ode on Indolence,” line 37

Question 7

it springs

Answer 7

from a mans little heart’s short fever-fit
JOHN KEATS,
“Ode on Indolence,” lines 33-34

Question 8

nor our fancies in their strength can go
further than this Pandemonium

Answer 8

JOHN KEATS,
note on his copy of Paradise Lost, 1.706-30

Question 9

my pulse grew less and less

Answer 9

JOHN KEATS,
“Ode on Indolence,” line 17