works of John Keats . [ 200 words]
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His brother's financial woes continued to loom over him, and, as a result, Keats had little energy or inclination for composition, but, on 19 September 1819, he managed to compose To Autumn, his last major work and the one that rang the curtain down on his career as a poet.
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.
Other poems by John Keats
I stood tiptoe upon a little hill
Specimen of an induction to a poem
Calidore – a fragment
To Some Ladies
On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses from the Same Ladies
To – Georgiana Augusta Wylie, afterwards Mrs. George Keats
To Hope
Imitation of Spenser
Three Sonnets on Woman
Sleep and Poetry
On Death
Women, Wine, and Snuff
Fill For Me a Brimming Bowl
Isabella or The Pot of Basil
To a Young Lady who Sent Me a Laurel Crown
On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt
To the Ladies who Saw me Crown'd
Hymn to Apollo
The Eve of St. Agnes
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John Keats
QUICK FACTS
Keats, John
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BORN
October 31, 1795
London, England
DIED
February 23, 1821 (aged 25)
Rome, Italy
NOTABLE WORKS
“Hyperion”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“La Belle Dame sans merci”
“To Autumn”
“On Melancholy”
“Ode to Psyche”
“Lamia”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“On Indolence”
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
MOVEMENT / STYLE
Romanticism
Youth
Explore John Keats's life through a dramatization penned by Archibald MacLeish and narrated by James Mason
Explore John Keats's life through a dramatization penned by Archibald MacLeish and narrated by James Mason
Written by poet Archibald MacLeish and narrated by actor James Mason, this 1973 film dramatizes the life of John Keats from his early years in England until his death at age 26. This video was produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.
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The son of a livery-stable manager, John Keats received relatively little formal education. His father died in 1804, and his mother remarried almost immediately. Throughout his life Keats had close emotional ties to his sister, Fanny, and his two brothers, George and Tom. After the breakup of their mother’s second marriage, the Keats children lived with their widowed grandmother at Edmonton, Middlesex. John attended a school at Enfield, two miles away, that was run by John Clarke, whose son Charles Cowden Clarke did much to encourage Keats’s literary aspirations. At school Keats was noted as a pugnacious lad and was decidedly “not literary,” but in 1809 he began to read voraciously. After the death of the Keats children’s mother in 1810, their grandmother put the children’s affairs into the hands of a guardian, Richard Abbey. At Abbey’s instigation John Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon at Edmonton in 1811. He broke off his apprenticeship in 1814 and went to live in London, where he worked as a dresser, or junior house surgeon, at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals. His literary interests had crystallized by this time, and after 1817 he devoted himself entirely to poetry. From then until his early death, the story of his life is largely the story of the poetry he wrote.
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Early Works
Charles Cowden Clarke had introduced the young Keats to the poetry of Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethans, and these were his earliest models. His first mature poem is the sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (1816), which was inspired by his excited reading of George Chapman’s classic 17th-century translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Clarke also introduced Keats to the journalist and contemporary poet Leigh Hunt, and Keats made friends in Hunt’s circle with the young poet John Hamilton Reynolds and with the painter Benjamin Haydon. Keats’s first book, Poems, was published in March 1817 and was written largely under “Huntian” influence. This is evident in the relaxed and rambling sentiments evinced and in Keats’s use of a loose form of the heroic couplet and light rhymes. The most interesting poem in this volume is “Sleep and Poetry,” the middle section of which contains a prophetic view of Keats’s own poetical progress. He sees himself as, at present, plunged in the delighted contemplation of sensuous natural beauty but realizes that he must leave this for an understanding of “the agony and strife of human hearts.” Otherwise the volume is remarkable only for some delicate natural observation and some obvious Spenserian influences.