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In Lamia and in The Fall of Hyperion colour and whiteness come close to being symbolic, qualities are all but metamorphosed into themes. But this is not so in the bulk of Keats’s verse. Whiteness and colour, the absolute truth of Moneta’ s face and the illusive iridescence of the rainbow-sided Lamia, coexist as easily as the yellow laburnum and the white honeysuckle:
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Cronin, R. (1988). Purple Riot. In: Colour and Experience in Nineteenth-Century Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09556-8_7
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