John keats

John Keats, (born Oct. 31, 1795, London, Eng.—died Feb. 23, 1821, Rome, Papal States), English Romantic poet. The son of a livery-stable manager, he had a limited formal education. He worked as a surgeon’s apprentice and assistant for several years before devoting himself entirely to poetry at age 21. His first mature work was the sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (1816). His long Endymion appeared in the same year (1818) as the first symptoms of the tuberculosis that would kill him at age 25. During a few intense months of 1819 he produced many of his greatest works: several great odes (including “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” and “To Autumn”), two unfinished versions of the story of the titan Hyperion, and “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.” Most were published in the landmark collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820). Marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and a yearning for the lost glories of the Classical world, his finest works are among the greatest of the English tradition. His letters are among the best by any English poet. Related Article Summaries

by Annabelle Fuller John Keats (born October 31, 1795 – died February 23, 1821) began life as the son of a stable-owner, and ended it as an unmarried, poor and tuberculosis-ridden young man. Somewhere along the way, he managed to become one of the most beloved poets of the English language and a perfect example of Romanticism. This list is intended to collate the poems which reflect Keats’ extraordinary genius and ability to handle a range of themes and form, rather than simply his most famous. Since we have chosen to focus on his shorter poems here, an honourable mention must go to three of his longer narrative poems: 10. “Fancy” (1818) Inspired by the garden at Wentworth Place, this poem makes the list because it affords us a window into Keats’ creative process. It’s no secret that his imagination elevates the everyday and produce what can be described as escapist poetry. The richness of the language showcases the classic Romanticism found in much of Keats’ work, with the imagery touching on hedonism, as well as his preoccupation with nature and the seasons (which is explored further in poems such as “To Autumn”). Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when rain pelteth; Then let winged Fancy wander Through the thought still spread beyond her: Open wide the mind’s cage-door, She’ll dart forth, and cloudward soar. O sweet Fancy! let her loose; Summer’s joys are spoilt by use, And the enjoying of the Spring Fa...

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• Known For: Romantic poet known for his search for perfection in poetry and his use of vivid imagery. His poems are recognized as some of the best in the English language. • Born​: October 31, 1795 in London, England • Parents: Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings • Died​: February 23, 1821 in Rome, Italy • Education​: King's College, London • Selected Works: “Sleep and Poetry” (1816), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819), “Ode to a Nightingale” (1819 ), “Hyperion” (1818-19), Endymion (1818) • Notable Quote​: "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty,'—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Early Life John Keats was born in London on October 31, 1795. His parents were Thomas Keats, a hostler at the stables at the Swan and Hoop Inn, which he would later manage, and Frances Jennings. He had three younger siblings: George, Thomas, and Frances Mary, known as Fanny. His father died in April 1804 in a horse riding accident, without leaving a will. In 1803, Keats was sent to John Clarke's school in Enfield, which was close to his grandparents’ house and had a curriculum that was more progressive and modern than what was found in similar institutions. John Clarke fostered his interest in classical studies and history. Charles Cowden Clarke, who was the headmaster’s son, became a mentor figure for Keats, and introduced him to Renaissance writers Torquato Tasso, Spenser, and the works of George Chapman. A temperamental boy, young Keats was both indolent and belligerent, but starting...

When a C.G.I. rendering of John Keats spoke at a recent commemoration, his voice was full of longing. Photograph courtesy Oxford’s Institute for Digital Archeology If the poet John Keats—fresh, fainting, convulsed by illness for much of his short life—could speak to us from beyond the grave, what would he say? More to the point, how would he say it? Keats didn’t speak like his fancier contemporaries, the poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He spoke like the son of an innkeeper, and like a man who had trained as a surgeon and an apothecary, which is what he was. Speech patterns, like shoddy shoes and buckteeth, are classic fodder for schoolyard bullies, and Keats was not spared. In 1818, after the publication of his poem “Endymion” (“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”), he was derided as a low-class poet who expressed “the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth language.” He was criticized for his background and his education, and also for his perceived vulgarity and his “Cockney rhymes.” One critic, writing in the influential magazine Blackwood’s, was famously harsh: “It is a better and a wiser thing to be a starved apothecary than a starved poet; so back to the shop Mr. John, back to the ‘plasters, pills, and ointment boxes.’ ” He added, “But, for Heaven’s sake, young Sangrado, be a little more sparing of extenuatives and soporifics in your practice than you have been in your poetry.” Zing! No one likes a bad review, but these attacks felt personal. “Cockney”...

• • Introduction In a letter to his brother George in the autumn of 1818, John Keats wrote, “Mrs Brawne…still resides in Hampstead…her daughter senior is I think beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange we have a little tiff now and then.” The daughter who caught Keats’s attention was Fanny Brawne, Keats’s neighbor. Keats and Brawne soon fell in love, and their star-crossed relationship, thwarted by Keats’s death in 1821, inspired many of Keats’s most well-known poems, including “Bright Star,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” and “Ode to a Nightingale.” Displayed in this exhibition are items from the Harvard Keats Collection, including a number of Keats’s love letters to Brawne, in addition to images of places and objects associated with the couple. More information on the (1795-1821) John Keats was born in London on the October 31, 1795 to a hostler and his wife. His father died when Keats was eight, and his mother when he was fourteen. Soon after his mother’s death, Keats began an apprenticeship with a neighboring doctor, and in 1815 started formal medical training at Guy’s Hospital. Despite the security that a medical career offered, Keats was ambivalent toward it, preferring instead to be a poet. His first published poem, “O Solitude,” appeared in The Examiner in May 1816. His first volume of poetry, Poems, published six months later, was a critical failure. Following the death of his younger brother Tom of tuberculosis in August 1818, Keats went to live ...

English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in London. The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. His father, a livery-stable keeper, died when Keats was eight; his mother died of tuberculosis six years later. After his mother’s death, Keats’s maternal grandmother appointed two London merchants, Richard Abbey and John Rowland Sandell, as guardians. Abbey, a prosperous tea broker, assumed the bulk of this responsibility, while Sandell played only a minor role. When Keats was fifteen, Abbey withdrew him from the Clarke School, Enfield, to apprentice with an apothecary-surgeon and study medicine in a London hospital. In 1816 Keats became a licensed apothecary, but he never practiced his profession, deciding instead to write poetry. Around this time, Keats met Leigh Hunt, an influential editor of the Examiner, who published his sonnets “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” and “O Solitude.” Hunt also introduced Keats to a circle of literary men, including the poets Poems by John Keats, published in 1817. Shelley, who was fond of Keats, had advised him to develop a more substantial body of work before publishing it. Keats, who was not as fond of Shelley, did not follow his advice. Endymion, a four-thousand-line erotic/allegorical romance based on the Greek myth of the same name, appeared the following year. Two of the most influential critical magazines of the time, the Quarterly Review and Blackwood’s Magazine, attacked the colle...