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Keats wrote this poem in February 1819, after The Eve of Saint Agnes but before La Belle Dame sans Merci. [2] It opens, "Upon a Sabbath-day it fell;" and describes the streets of a cathedral town as the residents head to Evensong. Keats later described it as an attempt to create the "spirit of quietude".
The poem was considered by many of Keats's contemporaries and the succeeding Victorians to be one of his finest and was influential in 19th-century literature. [1] The title comes from the day (or evening) before the feast of Saint Agnes (or St. Agnes' Eve). St. Agnes, the patron saint of virgins, died a martyr in 4th-century Rome. The eve ...
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.
NYT Mini Crossword Answers, Hints for Today, January 18, 2025. Larry Slawson. January 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM. The New York Times.
Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a narrative poem by John Keats adapted from a story in Boccaccio's Decameron (IV, 5). It tells the tale of a young woman whose family intend to marry her to "some high noble and his olive trees", but who falls for Lorenzo, one of her brothers' employees.
According to Keats' friend Brown, Keats finished the ode in just one morning: "In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast-table to the grass-plot under a plum-tree, where he sat for two or three hours.
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 Masks of Keats, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Mizukoshi, Ayumi. Keats, Hunt and the Aesthetics of Pleasure. New York: Palgrave, 2001. ISBN 0-333-92958-6; Patterson, Charles. "Passion and Permanence in Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn" in Twentieth Century Interpretations of Keats's Odes. Editor Jack Stillinger. Englewood Cliffs ...