The Starlight Night by David H. Levy
Author:David H. Levy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific…
Most critics assume that Keats was recalling Herschel’s discovery of the planet Uranus in 1781, an event that occurred 14 years before he was born. I suspect the line harks back instead to the discovery of the magnificent comet of 1811, which appeared only 3 years before he wrote the sonnet. Other writers spoke of the sky too—here is Keats:Bright Star: Were I as stedfast as thou art…
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