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Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti

Summary "Life of John Keats" by William Michael Rossetti is a biographical account written in the late 19th century. The narrative focuses on the life and works of the renowned Romantic poet John Keats, exploring his early years, literary development, relationships, and ultimately his tragic early death. The book delves into how Keats's personal experiences shaped his poetic voice and examines the impact of his work on English literature. The opening of "Life of John Keats" introduces readers to Keats's background, outlining his modest origins and the challenges he faced growing up as the child of unremarkable but loving parents. It details his education and inclinations toward literature, revealing pivotal moments such as the death of his parents that profoundly affected him. Furthermore, Keats's early aspirations in surgery are presented before his eventual shift to poetry, influenced by key literary figures and friendships, setting the stage for an exploration of his emotional depth and poetic genius. This section establishes th

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John Keats Biography (1911)

John Keats (1795-1821), English poet, was born on the 29th or 31st of October 1795 at the sign of the Swan and Hoop, 24 The Pavement, Moorfields, London. He published his first volume of verse in 1817, his second in the following year, his third in 1820, and died of consumption at Rome on the 23rd of February 1821 in the fourth month of his twenty-sixth year. (For the biographical facts see the later section of this article.)

Analysis of Keats’s work

In Keats’s first book there was little foretaste of anything greatly or even genuinely good; but between the marshy and sandy flats of sterile or futile verse there were undoubtedly some few purple patches of floral promise. The style was frequently detestable—a mixture of sham Spenserian and mock Wordsworthian, alternately florid and arid.

Endymion

His second book, Endymion, rises in its best passages to the highest level of Barnfield and of Lodge, the two previous poets with whom, had he published nothing more, he might most properly have been classed; and this, among minor minstr

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John Keats
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Barnard, John. John Keats. British and Irish Authors. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Considers issues of class and gender, and nineteenth century debates about poetry. An excellent introduction.

Davey, Peter. A Poet in Love. Ilfracombe, UK: Arthur H. Stockwell, 2009.

Narrates Keats’s romance with the enigmatic Isabella Jones and his passionate love of Fanny Brawne, on the basis of Keats’s poems and letters as well as the letters that Fanny Brawne wrote to Keats’s young sister after the poet’s death.

de Almeida, Hermione, ed. Critical Essays on John Keats. Critical Essays on British Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990.