Key Themes

Key Themes

1. Nature

   • The eternal nature of art
   • After dark vapours have oppressed our plains (33)
   • O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell (5)
   • To Ailsa Rock (133)
   • Finality of nature - life being temporal
   • Imitation of Spenser (1)
   • Endymion (39)
   • On the Sea (35)

2. Mortality

   • La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballard (184)
   • Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (32) - needs 2B finished
   • On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (34)
   • To My Brothers (13)
   • La Belle (184)
   • To Sleep (20)
   • Isabella...Basil (109)
   • Elgin Marbles (34)
   • Endymion (39)
   • Suffering
     • The Idealisation of violence and nature as a restorative power
   • To My Brothers 12)

3. Politics

   • On Peace (4)
   • To Kosciusko (33)
   • Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (32)
   • Nebuchadnezzar's Dream (98)

4. The Medieval World

   • La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballard (184)
   • La Belle (184)
   • Isabella...Basil (109)
   • The Eve of St Agnes (165)
   • Endymion (39)
   • Specimen of an Induction to a Poem (6)
   • Link to Women, Love and Nature - Chivalric tendencies and the Knight being somewhat of a pinnacle of masculinity

5. Hellenistic Ideal

   • On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (34)
   • On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (12)
   • To Leigh Hunt (34)
   • On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (34)
   • Endymion (39)

6. Appreciation of Beauty

   • On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (34)
   • La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballard (184)
   • Imitation of Spenser (1)
   • On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (12)
   • On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (34)
   • La Belle (184)

7. Love

   • Link to Chivalric Love - Familial and amicable love
   • Endymion (39)
   • Isabella...Basil (109)
   • Specimen to an Induction to a Poem (6)
   • To Charles Cowden Clarke (8)
   • To Kosciusko (33)
   • Imitation of Spenser (1)
   • To My Brothers (12)
   • La Belle (184)

8. Role of the Poet in Society

   • Imitation of Spenser (1)
   • Addressed to Haydon (13)
   • On Peace (4)
   • Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition (32)
   • I stood tip-toe upon a little hill (13)
   • Sleep and Poetry (20)

9. Role of Women / Portrayal

   • La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballard (184)
   • La Belle (184)
   • Endymion (39)
   • Isabella...Basil (109)
   • Eve of St Agnes (165)
   • Specimen...Poem (6)