Hyperion, John Keats - Warren U. Ober and W. K. Thomas (essay date 1980)
Warren U. Ober and W. K. Thomas (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: Ober, Warren U. and W. K. Thomas. “Keats and the Solitary Pan.” Keats-Shelley Journal 29 (1980): 96-119.
[In the following essay, Ober and Thomas examine the implications of Keats's use of Pan in The Fall of Hyperion. They asserting that the character operates figuratively as the Romantic Imagination.]
One of the most fascinating cruxes in Keats's poetry occurs in lines 410-411 of Canto i of The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream, as the utterly defeated Saturn in his dejection sends “Strange musings to the solitary Pan.”1 These lines near the close of the first canto appear in a passage in which the narrator, Keats's persona, having ascended the steps to the altar in the temple of Saturn, is being accorded a vision of the deposed Titan by the goddess Moneta, priestess at the shrine. There, beside Moneta “Like a stunt bramble by a solemn pine” (line...
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