ABSTRACT This meditative essay uses the metaphor of the patagium, the unique fold of skin that stretches between the limbs of a bat, as a way to conceptualize John Clare’s and John Keats’s engagement with ancient poetic traditions and Romantic theories of mind. It explores Clare’s and Keats’s encounters with real and imagined bats as recorded in a selection of their letters, marginalia and journals. The essay concludes that, for Clare and Keats, bats were not figures associated with darkness and death, but with dusk, childhood and human imagination.

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蝙蝠，蝙蝠，来到我的帽子下

摘要 这篇冥想文章使用了 patagium 的比喻，即蝙蝠四肢之间独特的皮肤褶皱，作为一种方式来概念化约翰克莱尔和约翰济慈对古代诗意传统和浪漫主义心灵理论的参与。它探索了克莱尔和济慈与真实和想象中的蝙蝠的相遇，这些蝙蝠记录在他们的信件、边际和日记中。这篇文章的结论是，对于克莱尔和济慈来说，蝙蝠不是与黑暗和死亡相关的人物，而是与黄昏、童年和人类想象力相关的人物。