...Keats draws a touching picture of the old, forsaken god Saturn, left to meditations of a lost empire : Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far Sunken from...noon, and eve's one star, Sat grey-haired Saturn, quiel as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head,...

...Hyperion. For example, as De Selincourt has pointed out, Keats's description of the deposed Saturn sitting "Deep in the shady sadness of a vale / Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn,"28 is based on Chapman's Iliad.2'' The passage in question is part of the eighth book. In it,...

...the authority of those very texts which had been present, so to speak, at the poem's inception. IV Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung...

...Keats's most developed response to the egotistical sublime, and must have disturbed Yeats considerably: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone; Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung...

...of Keats's absorption of Milton (especially of Milton's quieter lyric touches) shows in every line: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from...from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, / / / / Sat gray-hair 'd Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest...

...lines of John Keats's 'Hyperion' (1820) where he heaps up different descriptions of absolute silence: Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the holy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star, Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as...