John Keats

John Keats , British Poet born the October 31st 1795 in Finsbury Pavement, close to London, dead the February 24th 1821 with Rome of the continuations of the Tuberculosis, is regarded as one of the best representatives of the romanticism to the the United Kingdom.

Resulting from a modest milieu, it loses his father at the 10 years age. He studies the ancient and contemporary literature very early. Shortly after the death of his/her mother (1810), it begins a training near a surgeon. In 1814, it forsakes the surgical studies to turn to the literary life. It then meets very quickly famous artists of its time such as Leigh Hunt, Percy B. Shelley or Benjamin Robert Haydon. Besides Leigh Hunt helped it to publish its first Poème, Lines in Imitation off Spencer , in a magazine in May 1816.

In 1817, it makes publish a first collection, heading Poems , which does not manage to touch the public. Forsaken by his/her George brother, party to settle with the Americas, it tries to help his/her Tom brother to leave the trap of alcohol. This last ends however up dying in 1818. It is during this period that Keats works with its first philosopher's stone, Endymion , which appears in 1818. It is about a narrative poem spread out over four works and inspired by Greek mythology (Endymion was deadened by Séléné (the Moon) indefinitely to preserve its beauty). It is also during this period that it feels the first signs of its disease.

In 1820, it makes publish Hyperion (Hypérion belongs to the family of the Titans in Greece Antique). The same year various ballades and odes appear such as: Lamia , Isabella , Ode To has Nightingale , Ode One has Grecian Urn , Ode To Psyche . Its disease then starts to worsen seriously and, on the council of its doctors, it leaves the United Kingdom for Italy, accompanied by his last friend, Joseph Severn. After having remained with Naples, it settles with Rome, where it returns its last sigh. It makes register like epitaph “Young stag dregs one whose name was writ in toilets” (Litt. “Here that rests whose name was written in water”). It was promised in marriage to Fanny Brawne, remained with the country.

Its life and its work inspired the basic screen of the novels of the author of Science-fiction daN Simmons, in particular in the cycles Hypérion and Endymion.

Works

  • Lines in Imitation off Spencer
  • Endymion
  • Bruise and Poems , containing the poem Hyperion
  • The Eve off S. Agnes
  • Hymn to Solitude
  • " the Smart ladies Without Mercy "
  • " Ode to Fall "
  • "Ode to has Nightingale"

External bonds

  • Biography

  • Works of John Keats in English

John-Keats.com (in English)

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