Isabella

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Isabella

poem by Keats

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John Keats
The year 1819
Keats had written “Isabella,” an adaptation of the story of the Pot of Basil in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, in 1817–18, soon after the completion of Endymion, and again he was dissatisfied with his work. It was during the year 1819 that all his greatest poetry was written—“Lamia,” “The…
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Keats had written “Isabella,” an adaptation of the story of the Pot of Basil in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, in 1817–18, soon after the completion of Endymion, and again he was dissatisfied with his work. It was during the year 1819 that all his greatest poetry was written—“Lamia,” “The…
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prolepsis
…following lines from John Keats’s “Isabella” (1820), for example, proleptically anticipate the assassination of a living character:
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…following lines from John Keats’s “Isabella” (1820), for example, proleptically anticipate the assassination of a living character:
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