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John Keats as a Romantic poet Paper V: The Romantic Literature Student’s Name: Kaushal Desai Class: M.A. English Sem: II Roll No. : XIV Submitted To: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

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Page 1: John Keats as a Romantic Poet

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

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Poets of The Romantic Age

William Wordsworth

S.T. Coleridge

P.B. Shelley

Lord Byron

John Keats

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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 ”.

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John Keats foremost Themes

Beauty Love Nature

Fancy Power Pain

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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)

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• 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.

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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”

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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.”