Endymion on Troilus and Criseyde: “Yet, in our very souls, we feel amain The close of Troilus and Cressid sweet.”
Night and Day on Isabella, or the Pot of Basil: “She was reading "Isabella and the Pot of Basil," and her mind was full of the Italian hills and the blue daylight, and the hedges set with little rosettes of red and white roses.”
The American on La Belle Dame sans Merci: ““Did you ever read Keats’s Belle Dame sans Merci?” asked Mrs. Tristram. “You remind me of the hero of the ballad:—”
Blue Nights on Endymion: “Quintana's journal: "In the poem, 'Endymion,' there is a line that seems to tell my present fear of life: Pass into nothingness."”
Ben-Hur on Endymion: “I bow'd a tranced vassal."--KEATS, Endymion.”
Babel Tower on Hyperion: “On Frederica's reading list, alongside other Romantic poems: 'She writes down "Kubla Khan," The Ancient Mariner, "The Immortality Ode," "The Death of Hyperion."'”
Companion Piece on In Drear-Nighted December: “It's from the poem, I say, by Keats, about just that, a tree in winter that doesn't have to miss its summer greenness... Green felicity”
Necessity on Ode on a Grecian Urn: Epigraph: "What leaf-fringed legends haunt about thy shape..." —KEATS, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"