The Eve of St. Agnes (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Keats
- First Published: 1820
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Romance
- Time of Work: The Middle Ages
- Setting: A castle
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Marriage, Dreams, England or English people, Castles, Romanticism, Middle Ages
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Madeline (mahd-LEHN), a young virgin, first shown preoccupied at a ball given in the castle of her noble father. Eager to carry out the ritual of St. Agnes’ Eve and thereby see her future husband in a dream, she leaves the revelry and retires to her room where, falling asleep, she dreams of Porphyro, the son of an enemy house. Waking to find him beside her bed, she is at first frightened. After he tells her, “This is no dream, my bride,” she steals with him out of the castle, past the sleeping, drunken wassailers, and away into the stormy night.
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