• Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil” is a narrative poem written by the renowned English Romantic poet John Keats.
  • Isabella and the Pot of Basil by William Holman Hunt, 1868. Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's...
  • She exhumes the body and buries the head in a pot of basil which she tends obsessively while pining away.
  • Yet they contriv'd to steal the Basil-pot, And to examine it in secret place: The thing was vile with green and livid spot, And yet they knew it was Lorenzo's face...
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    • Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel!
    MLA Style: Works Cited. Keats, John. Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil.
  • Yet they contriv’d to steal the Basil-pot, And to examine it in secret place: The thing was vile with green and livid spot, 475 And yet they knew it was Lorenzo’s face...
  • Isabella, or, The pot of basil / by John Keats ; with illustrations by Paul Henry.
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  • And as he to the court-yard pass'd along, Each third step did he pause, and listen'd oft If he could hear his lady's matin-song, Or the light whisper of her footstep...
  • Keats claimed not to care for his most critically neglected long romance, Isabella; Or, The Pot of Basil (1818), calling the poem “mawkish,” “weaksided...
  • Yet they contriv’d to steal the Basil-pot, And to examine it in secret place: The thing was vile with green and livid spot, And yet they knew it was Lorenzo’s face...
  • John William Waterhouse’s portrayal of John Keats’s poem “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil”, is dreamy, which is typical for his oeuvre, and...