TY - JOUR
AU - Langmuir, Christopher
AB - 514 NOTES AND QUERIES 2014 yards of chain, [and] one million iron collars’ Study of English Romanticism, 1983: 157) from England and of ‘one thousand starving was beguiled into detecting something ‘orien- Scotchmen to manage the slaves’. What tal’ in the phrase, yet to date no specific source some scholars have read as an exchange of let- available to Keats has been identified to sub- ters with a half-sister is a fabrication giving stantiate the claim. scope for Spencean prophecy and satirizing of In fact, there is no need to invoke oriental or the likely repressive quashing of the possibility any other doctrine to explain ‘the two-and- of realization of millenarian political ends. thirty Palaces’. The East is only one of the SUE THOMAS four, or rather thirty-two, points of the La Trobe University (marine) compass towards which Keats envis- doi:10.1093/notesj/gju183 ages ‘a voyage of conception’. From at least The Author (2014). Published by Oxford University Press. the sixteenth century ‘two and thirty’ had col- All rights reserved. For Permissions, located with points of the compass and their please email: journals.permissions@oup.com corresponding winds. According to the corres- Advance Access publication 7 November, 2014 ponding entry in The Gentleman’s Dictionary 
TI - Keats: The Two and Thirty Palaces Revisited
JF - Notes and Queries
DO - 10.1093/notesj/gju162
DA - 2014-12-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/keats-the-two-and-thirty-palaces-revisited-N5AzAvi9nR
SP - 514
EP - 515
VL - 61
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -