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Keats's Realms of Gold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Joseph Warren Beach*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota

Extract

More than one critic has recalled the passage in Robertson's History of America which probably inspired the final simile of Keats's most famous sonnet. It was in September, 1513. Balboa and his men had been struggling for twenty days across the sixty miles of forest and mountain that made the isthmus of Darien, having been obliged to battle with the natives as well as with torrents, swamps, and precipices. Many of the men were sick and ready to give up.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1934

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