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	The Theme of "The Eve of St. Agnes" in the Pre-Raphaelite Movement
		Of all the works, artistic or literary, that use the subject of St. Agnes' Eve as its basis, John Keats's narrative poem "The Eve of St. Agnes" written in 1819 is undoubtedly the most famous.
		It was actually William Holman Hunt's Porphyro during the drunkenness attending the revelry (The Eve of St. Agnes) that was the instigation for bringing the PRB together in 1848.
		His favorite of Keats's poems were "Eve of St. Mark," "Isabella," and, of course, "The Eve of St. Agnes"; he wrote, " 'The Eve of St. Agnes" "and the fragment 'The Eve of Saint Mark' are in manner the choicest and the chastest of Keats' works'"(Bottai).
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	Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profile: Saint Agnes
		Agnes, a young Christian convert, is honored as one of the four great virgin martyrs of the Christian Church.
		St. Agnes, not only had no desire to marry, but was prepared to die for the sake of her faith and her virginity as "the bride of Christ", rather than become the wife of the son of a Roman prefect.
		Agnes is regarded as the patron saint of young women and the special protectress of bodily purity.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19990101/SAINTS/stagnes.htm (1034 words)

	The Eve of St. Agnes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"The Eve of St. Agnes" is a long poem by John Keats, written in 1819 and published in 1820.
		The basis of the poem is the superstition that a woman would see her future husband if she performed a certain ritual on the eve of Saint Agnes.
		The Theme of "The Eve of St. Agnes" in the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, An analysis of the poem at Victorianweb
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Eve_of_St._Agnes (345 words)

	John Keats - Keats, St. Agnes, Marriage, and other stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is the Eve of St. Agnes, on which young virgins obedient to various bedtime rituals -- having eaten only a salt-filled egg, or having put sprigs of thyme and rosemary in their shoes-are granted a vision of their future lovers.
		Agnes is the patron saint of virgins, martyred at the age of twelve (ca.
		In Keats's famous "The Eve of St. Agnes," Madeline retires dressed in white, pledged to look only heavenward for her vision of the forbidden Porphyro; this allows Porphyro, who has hidden himself in her bedroom closet, to have full view of her...
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	St. Agnes Eve & St. Agnes Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The lamb, as a symbol of purity, is one of the symbols of St. Agnes.
		St. Agnes, like St. Valentine, St. Catherine of Alexandria, and St. Anthony of Padua, is invoked by single women in search of a husband -- and today is a good day to pray such a prayer.
		See Keats's "Romeo and Juliette-esque" poem, "Eve of St. Agnes," published in 1820, in which the maiden, Madeleine, goes to bed on St. Agnes' Eve, as her horrible family has a huge party in another part of the house.
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	MSN Encarta - Sidebar - "The Eve of St. Agnes"
		John Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes” (1820) is one of the most famous love poems of the 19th century and of the romantic movement in literature.
		According to legend, if a virgin goes to bed without supper on the night of the feast of Saint Agnes, she will see her future husband in a dream.
		Porphyro, a youth in love with Madeline despite the enmity of Madeline’s family, enlists the help of an aging servant to steal into Madeline’s room while she is asleep.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_762504037/The_Eve_of_St_Agnes.html (186 words)

	§6. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci". IV. Keats. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		What remains of the companion piece, The Eve of St. Mark’s, though conceived at the same time, was written some months later, and it remained unfinished.
		Instead of the jewelled richness, the saturated colour of The Eve of St. Agnes, we have a style of horror-stricken reticence and suggestion, from which colour and definite form have been withdrawn; and a music of brief haunting cadences, not of eloquent, articulated phrase.
		The character of each poem is accentuated in the final line of its stanza: the Alexandrines of The Eve of St. Agnes are points of heightened entrain, the short slow closing verses of La Belle Dame (“And no birds sing”), moments of keener suspense.
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	St. Agnes of Rome
		Agnes is a Christian martyr who died at Rome around 304 in the persecution of Diocletian: the last and fiercest of the persecutions of Christianity by the Roman emperors.
		She is said to have been only about twelve or thirteen when she died, and the remains preserved in St Agnes' Church in Rome are in agreement with this.
		The only tie-in with Agnes is that (presumably because she died as a young virgin), Agnes is regarded as the patron of young unmarried girls, and there is a folk-belief that a girl who goes to bed supperless on the eve of St Agnes's Day will dream that night about her husband-to-be.
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	St. Agnes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The wool sheared from these lambs is woven by the nuns of her convent into the pallia (rectangular cloaks) which are given to archbishops of the western church.
		Agnes is venerated as the patron saint of betrothed couples, gardeners, and virgins and is invoked to protect chastity.
		In our window, Agnes is shown with her lamb and a palm frond, the symbol of victory in martyrdom.
	stjohns-stamford.org /chapel/StAgnes.html (351 words)

	N.Reynolds: The Enchantment of the Tomb in John Keats's 'Eve of St. Agnes.' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Iconography suggestive of the Middle Ages appealed at once to the senses of the picturesque and of the sublime; gothic ornament mingled with the rococo served as decorative embellishment while it simultaneously recalled the "Dark Ages" of tyranny, superstition, and blind faith (Penny 113-114).
		Just as young women fulfill the traditions of St. Agnes's holy day so that they may see their future husband in their dreams, tomb sculpture is designed to petition God for the deceased's place in Heaven.
		In "The Eve of St. Agnes," this contest plays out on a number of levels, both within the text, between Madeline and Porphyro, and extra-textually, between Madeline and Keats, the poet/narrator.
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	The Eve of Saint Agnes -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		A narrative poem in 42 Spenserian stanzas by English Romantic poet John Keats, The Eve of Saint Agnes was written in 1819 and published in 1820 in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems.
		The poem, which brims with sensuality and vivid description, is based on a medieval legend indicating that on the eve of St. Agnes' feast day (January 20, said to be the...
		Agnes was the adopted daughter of Radegunda, the wife of Chlotar I, king of the Franks.
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	Katie Sharp on Keats's Eve of St. Agnes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It was after this threat that Keats washed his hands of "The Eve of St. Agnes" and allowed the original to be published without much argument.
		Keats is believed to have written "St. Agnes Eve" at the end of January and in the beginning of February, while on a trip to Chichester to visit some friends.
		It is as though the creative side of himself ran away and left behind the silent and tolerant man that he once was, which allowed the poem to be given without complaint to the publishers to do with as they saw fit.
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	"The Eve of St. Agnes"
		St. Agnes, the patron saint of virgins, died a martyr in fourth century Rome.
		Initially Porphyro is touched sentimentally by the image of Madeline in her St. Agnes dream.
		That her "bliss" is an undesirable or untenable condition is expressed in the metaphor, "As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again." This line also has sexual overtones, with reference to virginity and sexual intercourse.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/cs6/st_agnes.html (1996 words)

	39. The Eve of St. Agnes. Keats, John. 1884. The Poetical Works of John Keats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His was harsh penance on St. Agnes’ Eve:
		She sigh’d for Agnes’ dreams, the sweetest of the year.
		Against the window-panes; St. Agnes’ moon hath set.
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	The Eve Of St. Agnes by Keates
		Keats uses images of mystery, adventure, and of the unknown to enhance the romantic feel of his poem The Eve of St. Agnes.
		In the second line of the poem, Keats uses the image of the owl to set a tone of the mysterious and unknown.
		The romantic feel of the poem," The Eve of Saint Agnes", is enhanced by the use of images of mystery and the unknown.
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	Comments
		In the poem "The Eve of St. Agnes" by John Keats, images of the sensuous coupled with those of virginity are prevalent.
		With this in mind, clearly this Eve of St. Agnes during the Romantic Period was taken quite seriously by young women who believed in so strongly in the traditions of the Catholic Church.
		Madeline is one such virgin who will take part in the rituals of St. Agnes Eve in hopes to see visions of the one she would marry.
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	John-Keats.com - Biography
		If the unique charm of the Eve of St Agnes lies thus in the richness and vitality of the accessory and decorative images, the actions and emothions of the personages are hardly less happily conceived as far as they go.
		Nearly allied with the Eve of St Agnes is the fragment in the four-foot ballad metre, which Keats composed on the parallel popular belief connected with The Eve of St Mark.
		The belief about St mark's Eve was that a person stationed near a church porch at twilight on that anniversary would see entering the church the apparitions of those about to die, or be brought near death, in the ensuing year.
	www.john-keats.com /biografie/chapter_vii.htm (5633 words)

	Poetic thought in Keats’ The Eve of St (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		With thought at the core, The Eve of St. Agnes contains the gradual taking off at several levels such as the story, the character exposition, the evocative quality of the climate both physical and that of the mind, the panorama of life, its imagery and the resultant sensory appeal.
		In The Eve of St. Agnes Keats’ thought is perceivable in his effort to find a way to focus on beauty, here it is the beauty of love ‘the heart’s affection’ from vanishing.
		This effort is visibly clear when he brings in, contrast in movement and sound, corresponding to the difference in content between the two lines and choice of words.
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	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| January 20 \| Eve of St Agnes love divinations ...
		John Keats in his poem 'The Eve of St Agnes' are referred to by John Aubrey in his
		The surname Melmonth was a family name; Sebastian he took from the saint in a rather pungent reflection on the prison uniform covered in arrows that was used by Britain in those days.
		St Paula’s Feast Day celebrates a young girl saved from the passions of a pursuer by running into a church, where she grew a beard
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	English: 18th Century Poem Analysis
		A robust piece of literature and love induced psychoses in, "The Rape of Lock." On the other hand, "The Eve of St. Agnes" told a tale of life, love, death, and eternal fate in heaven.
		In the beginning of Keats romantic premise to life in St. Agnes, all is cold.
		Desire brings Keats to the heightened point of emotional gratification within, "The Eve of St. Agnes." St. Agnes is such a peaceful age-old memory for Keats.
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	The Eve of St. Agnes Assignment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For those of you who would like to contemplate some study questions about "The Eve of St. Agnes" before class tomorrow, see below.
		Choose at least four (any four) questions to answer, though if you choose to write on more than four, you will be compensated for your effort.
		We discussed the important moment in "Ode to a Nightingale" in which Keats's narrator breaks the trance of idealism that is never broken in "Grecian Urn" last time, which begins to address this question.
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	Write an appreciation of 'The Eve of St. Agnes' as a narrative, Romantic poem… John Keats.
		Write an appreciation of 'The Eve of St. Agnes' as a narrative, Romantic poem… John Keats.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "Write an appreciation of 'The Eve of St. Agnes' as a narrative, Romantic poem… John Keats.".
		published after his death, including "Eve of St. Mark" (in 1848) and "La belle dame sans merci" (The Beautiful Woman Without Mercy; of which the first version was published in 1888).
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	The Eve of St. Agnes has been criticised as building tension but not really fulfilling its potential. How far do you ...
		The Eve of St. Agnes has been criticised as building tension but not really fulfilling its potential.
		Coursework and Essays: By Level: GCSE: Literature: The Eve of St. Agnes has been criticised as building tension but not really fulfilling its potential.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "The Eve of St. Agnes has been criticised as building tension but not really fulfilling its potential.
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	Papers on Language and Literature: Madeline, mermaids, and Medusas in "The Eve of St. Agnes"
		While recent scholarly interest in Keats has focused on gender issues in increasingly complex ways,1 Keats's ambiguous depiction of Madeline in "The Eve of St. Agnes" has not attracted the attention it deserves.
		Commenting that Keats's characterization is "intriguingly undecided," Susan J. Wolfson enumerates the guises Madeline presents: "she appears variously as an innocent dreamer, an object of rapt devotion, a subject of soft ridicule, and a target for appropriative designs, opportunistic manipulation, and, some have argued, calculated betrayal" ("Keats's `Gordian Complication' of Women" 83).
		And while acknowledging that it is typical of the romance mode which Keats invokes in "The Eve of St. Agnes" that "knights errant often undergo daemonic enthralment to a nonmortal female," Patterson says that Madeline is distinctly not such a nonmortal female (114).
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	Poetry X » Poetry Archives » John Keats » "The Eve Of St. Agnes"
		Her falt’ring hand upon the balustrade, Old Angela was feeling for the stair, When Madeline, St. Agnes’ charmed maid, Rose, like a mission’d spirit, unaware: With silver taper’s light, and pious care, She turn’d, and down the aged gossip led To a safe level matting.
		Thou art my heaven, and I thine eremite: Open thine eyes, for meek St. Agnes’ sake, Or I shall drowse beside thee, so my soul doth ache.” Thus whispering, his warm, unnerved arm Sank in her pillow.
		Shaded was her dream By the dusk curtains:—’twas a midnight charm Impossible to melt as iced stream: The lustrous salvers in the moonlight gleam; Broad golden fringe upon the carpet lies: It seem’d he never, never could redeem From such a stedfast spell his lady’s eyes; So mus’d awhile, entoil’d in woofed phantasies.
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		Comments about "The Eve Of St. Agnes"
		"The Eve of St. Agnes" does not necessarily present a pessimistic or optimistic view of life.
		Keats wrote this poem to practice a chivalric romance and experiement with a specific rhyme scheme.
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	New Statesman: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve Of St Agnes And Other Poems. - Review - book reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		New Statesman: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve Of St Agnes And Other Poems.
		But when she speaks, her voice is "bubbling honey", and even though we've not yet seen her guise as a woman, we know Lycias doesn't stand a chance.
		This change of temperature is as sudden as that in "The Eve of St Agnes", where the icy scene gives way to Madeleine's chamber and "the honey'd middle of the night".
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		XXII Her falt'ring hand upon the balustrade, Old Angela was feeling for the stair, When Madeline, St. Agnes' charmed maid, Rose, like a mission'd spirit, unaware: With silver taper's light, and pious care, She turn'd, and down the aged gossip led To a safe level matting.
		Shaded was her dream By the dusk curtains:--'twas a midnight charm Impossible to melt as iced stream: The lustrous salvers in the moonlight gleam; Broad golden fringe upon the carpet lies: It seem'd he never, never could redeem From such a stedfast spell his lady's eyes; So mus'd awhile, entoil'd in woofed phantasies.
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