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The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats's death (seven weeks earlier). It is a pastoral elegy, in the English tradition of John Milton's Lycidas. [1] Shelley had studied and translated classical elegies.
The work was popular, brought new readers to both Keats and Shelley, and set a model for later collections of poetry popular during the Victorian period. [9] A review in the December 1819 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine claimed, "we propose now doing a truly wonderful thing-namely, in good earnest to laud a production of Mr Leigh Hunt's [...] is a very clever and cunning contrivance.
The River Cherwell, near Oxford, manner of David Cox Snr, Oil On Canvas. Celebration of natural scenery had been a constant in English poetry, but choosing a river as the focus within it suited the smaller scale of the sonnet. [30] At first there was an awkward transition from the conventions and diction of 18th century topographical poetry.
In 1827, Keats was elected to the Ohio Bridge Commission, laying the foundation for the river's first crossing. [2] The state government appointed him to the board of the Bank of Kentucky in 1832. [3] He joined the boards of ten other organisations, including the Kentucky Historical Society and the Harlan Museum, which he headed.
"Ode to a Nightingale" is a personal poem which describes Keats' journey into the state of negative capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly relevant to Keats.
His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. [6] He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". [ 7 ] He was popular enough that, by 1900, he told the Louisville Courier-Journal that his income from publishing poetry in magazines amounted to about $100 a month.
First appearance in Posthumous Poems, 1824. The Triumph of Life was the last major work by Percy Bysshe Shelley before his death in 1822. [1] The work was left unfinished. Shelley wrote the poem at Casa Magni in Lerici, Italy in the early summer of 1822. [1] He modelled the poem, written in terza rima, on Petrarch's Trionfi and Dante's Divine ...
"A Dirge" is a poetic dirge composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley. [1] It was published posthumously in 1824 by his wife, Mary Shelley, in the collection Posthumous Poems. [2] [3] The text has been set to music by Frank Bridge, Charles Ives, Ottorino Resphigi, Roy Ewing Agnew, and Benjamin Britten.