John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics by John Keats

John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics by John Keats

John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet. The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature. During the 19th century, critics deemed them unworthy of attention, distractions from his poetic works. During the 20th century they became almost as admired and studied as his poetry, and are highly regarded within the canon of English literary correspondence. T. S. Eliot described them as certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet. Keats spent a great deal of time considering poetry itself, its constructs and impacts, displaying a deep interest unusual amongst his milieu who were more easily distracted by metaphysics or politics, fashions or science. Table of Contents: - Biographies: - Life of John Keats by Sidney Colvin - Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Ketas by Richard Monckton Milnes - Complete Letters: - To Messrs, Taylor and Hessey - To Jane Reynolds - To Charles Wentworth Dilke - To Joseph Severn - To John Taylor - To Benjamin Robert Haydon - To Benjamin Bailey - To John Hamilton Reynolds - To George and Thomas Keats - To Fanny Keats - To James Rice - To Leigh Hunt - To Richard Woodhouse - To Thomas Keats - To James Elmes - To Mrs. Brawne - To Charles Cowden Clarke - To George and Georgiana Keats - To Percy Bysshe Shelley - To Mrs. Reynolds - To Georgiana Keats - To Mariane and Jane Reynolds - To Mrs. Wylie - To Charles Brown.

John Keats was born in Moorfields in October 1795, the son of a livery stable manager. His father died of TB in 1804 and his mother in 1810. He had gotten a good education at John Clarke's Enfield private school by that time. He began his professional training as an apprentice to a surgeon in 1811 and completed it at Guy's Hospital in 1816. His decision to devote himself to poetry rather than a medical profession was bold, based more on a personal challenge than any genuine achievement. Early Mends like Charles Cowden Clarke and J.

H.Reynolds, and he met Leigh Hunt, whose Examiner had already published Keats' first poem, in October 1816. Poems (1817) was published only seven months later. Despite the Hunt circle's great hopes, it was a flop. By the time Endymion was published in 1818, Keats' name had become synonymous with Hunt's Cockney School, and the Conservative Blackwood's Magazine attacked him as a lower-class vulgarian who had no right to aspire to 'poetry.'

Yet, Keats' fame was based on posterity rather than contemporary literary politics. His inspiration and challenge came from Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth. From his letters, it is clear that Keats matured at an incredible rate. He wrote The Eve of St Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, The Major Odes, Lamia, and the deeply exploratory Fall of Hyperion in 1819, after working on the magnificent epic fragment Hyperion in 1818.

Whilst preparing the 1820 book for the press, Keats was already ailing, and by the time it was published in July, he was very ill. In 1821, he died in Rome. Although Keats' final volume received considerable critical acclaim at the time, it wasn't until the later half of the nineteenth century that his place in English Romanticism became clear, and it wasn't until this century that it was fully realized.

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ISBN 13	9788027331857
ISBN 10	8027331854
Title	John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics
Author	John Keats
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	e-artnow
Year published	2019-04-15
Number of pages	704
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