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John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
John Keats: The Making of a Poet is a biography about the poet written by Aileen Ward. After nine years of research, [1] the work was initially published in 1963 by Viking (New York) and Secker & Warburg (London). Revised editions were published in 1986 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York) and Faber & Faber (London). [2]
Walter Jackson Bate (May 23, 1918 – July 26, 1999) was an American literary critic and biographer. He is known for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning biographies of Samuel Johnson (1978) and John Keats (1964). [1]
Silhouette of Keats by Charles Brown (1819), given to Keats's sister. Brown is best known for his close friendship with the poet John Keats. When Charles Brown first met Keats in the late summer of 1817, Keats was twenty-one, and Brown thirty. [4] Shortly after their meeting, Keats and Brown were planning to see Scotland together.
Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats (1818) Sweet, Sweet is the Greeting of Eyes (1818) Meg Merrilies (1818) Lines Written in the Highlands after a Visit to Burns's Country (1818) At Fingal's Cave (1818) The Gadfly (1818) Ben Nevis: A Dialogue (1818) Spenserian Stanza (In after-time, a sage of mickle lore...) (1818) A Prophecy (To George Keats in ...
The Mansion of Many Apartments is a metaphor that the poet John Keats expressed in a letter to John Hamilton Reynolds dated Sunday, 3 May 1818.. I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me - The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber, in which we remain as long as we do not ...
Charles Cowden Clarke and John Keats both had a scrappy awareness of Pope’s translation [1] and the most famous passages of Homer. [1] Chapman's vigorous and earthy paraphrase (1616) was put before Keats by Clarke, a friend from his days as a pupil at a boarding school in Enfield Town [2] who was integral in Keats’s poetic education. [1]
The book had been given to Keats in 1819 by John Hamilton Reynolds. Joseph Severn maintained that the last draft was transcribed into the book in late September 1820 while they were aboard the ship Maria Crowther, travelling to Rome, from where the very sick Keats would never return. The book also contains one sonnet by his friend Reynolds and ...