‘Murdered Man’: Re-Examining Keats in The Examiner

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Brian Rejack, S. Wolfson
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ABSTRACT In John Keats’s Isabella; or the Pot of Basil (1820), Isabella’s mercantile brothers plot to murder her suitor, their clerk Lorenzo, for spoiling their plans to marry her to ‘some high noble and his olive–trees’. Having invited him for a day of hunting in the local forests, ‘the two brothers and their murder’d man’ (XXVII) head out – an epithet admired by Charles Lamb, and much afterwards, for Keats’s skill in narrative anticipation. Lamb’s praise was published in a review of the 1820 volume, reprinted in The Examiner, 30 July, 494-5. This appreciation is on page 494. On page 495, just below the review, is a report of ‘Executions’ at Newgate prison. One of the condemned is a ‘black man’, William Wilkinson, who insisted that he was framed and convicted on flimsy testimony, protesting that ‘he was a murdered man, and that he should die innocently’. This was an accidental discovery on our part, but once discovered a magnetic curiosity. Our essay examines what Lamb calls Keats’s ‘wonderfully conceived’ epithet, in the capital contexts of Keats’s day, most especially in reports in The Examiner and other newspapers. Making no claim for allusion on Keats’s part, or for Lamb’s admiration of this epithet, we shine an unexpected light on the urgent currency of this epithet, a potent rhetorical alliance among victims of ‘judicial murder’, and its new cast on economic power and tyranny in Isabella.
“被谋杀的人”:在《审查者》中重新审视济慈
摘要:济慈的《伊莎贝拉》;或《巴西尔之壶》(1820年),伊莎贝拉的商业兄弟密谋谋杀她的追求者,他们的办事员洛伦佐,因为他们破坏了将她嫁给“某位贵族和他的橄榄树”的计划。邀请他在当地森林里狩猎一天后,“两兄弟和他们被谋杀的人”(二十七)出发了——这个绰号受到查尔斯·兰姆的钦佩,后来也因济慈在叙事预期方面的技巧而备受钦佩。兰姆的赞扬发表在1820年的一篇评论中,于494-5年7月30日在《审查者》上重印。这份感谢信见第494页。在第495页,就在评论下方,是一份关于纽盖特监狱“处决”的报告。其中一名被判刑者是“黑人”威廉·威尔金森,他坚称自己是根据站不住脚的证词被陷害和定罪的,并抗议“他是一名被谋杀的人,应该无辜地死去”。这对我们来说是一个偶然的发现,但曾经发现了一种磁性的好奇心。我们的文章在济慈时代的首都背景下,尤其是在《观察家报》和其他报纸的报道中,探讨了兰姆所说的济慈“构思巧妙”的绰号。我们没有提及济慈,也没有提及兰姆对这个绰号的钦佩,我们意外地发现了这个绰号的紧迫性,“司法谋杀”受害者之间强有力的修辞联盟,以及它在伊莎贝拉身上对经济权力和暴政的新塑造。
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期刊介绍: The Keats-Shelley Review has been published by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association for almost 100 years. It has a unique identity and broad appeal, embracing Romanticism, English Literature and Anglo-Italian relations. A diverse range of items are published within the Review, including notes, prize-winning essays and contemporary poetry of the highest quality, around a core of peer-reviewed academic articles, essays and reviews. The editor, Professor Nicholas Roe, along with the newly established editorial board, seeks to develop the depth and quality of the contributions, whilst retaining the Review’s distinctive and accessible nature.
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