John Keats as a Romantic poet

Paper V: The Romantic LiteratureStudent’s Name: Kaushal DesaiClass: M.A. English Sem: IIRoll No. : XIVSubmitted To: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji

Bhavnagar University

Poets of The Romantic Age

William Wordsworth

S.T. Coleridge

P.B. Shelley

Lord Byron

John Keats

John Keats

• John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

• He was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement

• The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery.• Keats as the supreme lover of beauty says, “ A thing of

beauty is joy forever ”.

John Keats foremost Themes

Beauty Love Nature

Fancy Power Pain

What makes John Keats a Romantic poet• “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ that is all ye know on earth,

and all ye need to know.” (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”, Line: 49-50)

• Keats’ cynicism about his life and his impending doom was seldom of his work. Though he was depressed about death, he wrote with a strong appreciation of life, love and beauty.

• In a letter to his lover Fanny Brawne, Keats writes, “I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death… I hate the world: it batters too much the wrings of my self-will, and would I could take a sweet poison from your lips to send me out of it.” (1818)

• Nature vs. Culture is the number one rule of Romanticism.• Keats was heavily influenced by ancient mythology; texts by

• Homer• Dante• Virgil• Shakespeare

• Death, sorrow, love and nature are signature trails of Romanticism.• Lyric and transcendent, that which is beyond human understanding.• Creation of Art and role of poet.

Foremost work of John Keats• “A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)”• “Bright Star”• “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”• “Ode On A Grecian Urn”• “Ode To A Nightingale”• “To Autumn”

Quotes of John Keats“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

“Love is my religion – I could die for it.”

“ I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

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