Festival dedicated to Pan where a stanzaic hymn is sung in praise of him. Keats’s account of Pan’s activities is largely drawn from the Elizabethan poets. Douglas Bush notes, “The goat-god, the tutelary divinity of shepherds, had long been allegorized on various levels, from Christ to ‘Universall Nature’ (Sandys); here he becomes the symbol of the romantic imagination, of supra-mortal knowledge.
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