Poetry of John Keats - 6 - Hodder Headline Audio torrent

FAIR Isabel, poor simple Isabel!
Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love’s eye!
They could not in the self-same mansion dwell
Without some stir of heart, some malady;
They could not sit at meals but feel how well
It soothed each to be the other by;
They could not, sure, beneath the same roof sleep
But to each other dream, and nightly weep...


Douglas Hodge reads Keats. Highlight is the pre-raphaelite Isabella or 'The Pot of Basil', which was written immediately after he had completed Endymion and has something of the same adolescent sentiment. Keats himself referred to it as having 'an amusing sober-sadness about it.'

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