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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.
1821 title page, Pisa, Italy. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (/ ˌ æ d oʊ ˈ n eɪ. ɪ s /) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and best-known works. [1]
Death was a constant theme that permeated aspects of Keats poetry because he was exposed to death of his family members throughout his life. [29] Within the poem, there are many images of death. The nightingale experiences a sort of death and even the god Apollo experiences death, but his death reveals his own divine state.
Keats declined Shelley's request, traveling instead with his companion Joseph Severn. Later proven to be suffering from tuberculosis, Keats died on February 23, 1821. Mourning the death of his friend, Shelley's grief is captured in the first stanza of the poem where the death of Adonaïs, who represents Keats, is announced.
On Death (1814) Women, Wine, and Snuff (1814) Fill for Me a Brimming Bowl (1814) To Hope (1815) To Some Ladies (1815) On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses from the Same Ladies (1815) To Emma (1815) Woman! When I Behold thee Flippant, Vain (1815) Specimen of an Induction to a Poem (1816) Calidore (1816) Hadst thou Liv’d in Days ...
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady without Mercy") is a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called La Belle Dame sans Mercy. [1] Considered an English classic, the poem is an example of Keats' poetic preoccupation with love and death. [2]
Keats probably gave the book to Joseph Severn in January 1821 before his death in February, aged 25. [3] [4] Severn believed that it was Keats's last poem and that it had been composed especially for him. The poem came to be forever associated with the "Bright Star" Fanny Brawne – with whom Keats became infatuated.
When I Have Fears" is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The 14-line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet. Keats wrote the poem between 22 and 31 January 1818. [1] It was published (posthumously) in 1848 in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats by Richard ...