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According to Michael O'Neill, Lamia in the poem "is treated ambivalently but with considerable sympathy", making "a sharp contrast with the more leisurely and seemingly uncritical use of romance in two narrative poems that follow ... the hapless Lycius is caught between the reductive rationalism of
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takes its title from the above-quoted passage: it is an explicit attempt to demonstrate that this view of "cold philosophy" is incorrect and that science reveals, rather than destroys, the true beauty of the natural world. The "cold philosopher" Apollonius kills both Lycius and Lamia.
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series (later re-broadcast on 5 January 2012). The production was directed by Susan Roberts with original music composed and performed by
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reveals Lamia's true identity at their wedding feast, whereupon she seemingly disappears and Lycius dies of grief.
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that Newton "had destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow, by reducing it to the prismatic colours".
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who is more beautiful than all. Hermes, searching for the nymph, instead comes across
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Poe's closing lines also echo several lines near the middle of "Lamia". The book
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Apollonius and the bewitching illusoriness of Lamia."
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Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems
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Index

narrative
John Keats
1819 odes
La Belle Dame sans Merci
on Melancholy
on Indolence
on a Grecian Urn
to a Nightingale
To Autumn
Hermes
nymph
Lamia
Corinth
Apollonius
Benjamin Haydon
Charles Lamb
Edgar Allan Poe
To Science
Unweaving the Rainbow
Richard Dawkins
symphonic poems
Edward MacDowell
Dorothy Howell
BBC Radio 4
John Harle
Paterson Joseph
Charlotte Emmerson
Jonathan Keeble
Sarah Leonard
Genesis

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