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Poetry Of John Keats: Lamia: Introduction

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Keats, John

Keats, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Lamia: Introduction:

"Lamia," the last of Keats' narrative poems, is based on an anecdote
included by Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy.

"Philostratus, in his fourth book de Vita Apollonii, hath a memorable
instance in this kind, which I may not omit, of one Menippus Lycius, a young
man twenty-five years of age, that going between Cenchreas and Corinth, met
such a phantasm (a lamia or vampire-serpent) in the habit of a fair
gentlewoman, which taking him by the hand, carried him home to her house, in
the suburbs of Corinth, and told him she was a ...

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