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"Lamia" is a narrative poem written by English poet John Keats which was published in 1820.〔(Keats's poem Lamia )〕 The poem was written in 1819, soon after "''La belle dame sans merci''" and his odes on Melancholy, on Indolence, to a Grecian Urn and to a Nightingale and just before "Ode to Autumn". The poem tells how the god Hermes hears of a nymph who is more beautiful than all. Hermes, searching for the nymph, instead comes across a Lamia, trapped in the form of a serpent. She reveals the previously invisible nymph to him and in return he restores her human form. She goes to seek a youth of Corinth, Lycius, while Hermes and his nymph depart together into the woods. The relationship between Lycius and Lamia, however, is destroyed when the sage Apollonius reveals Lamia's true identity at their wedding feast, whereupon she seemingly disappears and Lycius dies of grief. Keats's poem had a deep influence on Edgar Allan Poe's sonnet "To Science", specifically lines 229–238 and the discussion of the baleful effects of "cold philosophy":
Poe's closing lines also echo several lines near the middle of "Lamia".〔Campbell, Killis. "The Origins of Poe", ''The Mind of Poe and Other Studies''. New York: Russell & Russell, Inc., 1962: 154–155.〕 The book ''Unweaving the Rainbow'' by Richard Dawkins takes its title from the above-quoted passage: it is an explicit attempt to demonstrate that this view of "cold philosophy" is incorrect and that science reveals, rather than destroys, the true beauty of the natural world. The poem also influenced Edward MacDowell's work, ''Lamia, Opus 29''. The poem was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 on 1 January 2010 on the ''Afternoon Play'' series (later re-broadcast on 5 January 2012). The production was directed by Susan Roberts with original music composed and performed by John Harle. The cast included: * Paterson Joseph ...... Narrator * Charloe Emmerson ...... Lamia * Tom Ferguson ...... Lycius * Jonathan Keeble ...... Hermes/Apollonius * Sarah Leonard ...... Singer ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lamia (poem)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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