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 He is the father of the Pre-Raphaelite poets like Rossetti and Morris and also influenced Tennyson. Keats is one of the greatest word painters above all its other qualities. The picture follows the picture in quick succession in his poems and each picture is remarkable for its vividness and minuteness of detail. His images are concrete and stand in striking contrast with Shelley's images which are abstract and vague. The Eve of St.Agnes is literary full of pictures.                                          " A casement of high and tripple arch'd there was                                           All garland with cavern imageries                                           of fruits, and flowers and bunches of knot grass..." Keats was in fact a great artist interested not in propaganda or social reform but in making poetry an instrument of presenting beauty and loveliness in its finest forms.  In 'Ode to Autumn', Autumn has been represented in the concrete form

 "Keats produced a body of poetry of extraordinary power and promise. During the three years of his poetic career, he showed a rapid and steady development and a gradual and complete abandonment of almost every fault and weakness." Keats born in London on 29th Oct 1795. Keats was the son of the livery stable keeper. He was passionately devoted to his mother. At her death, Keats was heartbroken. His father died when he was nine and his mother when he was fifteen. After her death, his guardian removed him from the school in 1810 and apprenticed him to a surgeon at Edmonton for 5 years.                               "Son of the old moon mountains African                                  Child of the Pyramid and Crocodile                                We call the fruitful, and that very while                                   A lesser fills our seeing inward span."                                                                                       - Leigh Hunt He (Le

 Salman Rushdie an Indian born British writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues by means of surreal characters, brooding humour, and an effusive and melodramatic prose style. His treatment of sensitive religious, and political subjects made him a controversial figure. He has written his first novel ' Grimus '. His second novel, ' Midnight's Children ', a fable about modern India, was an unexpected critical and popular success that won him international recognition. For this novel, he won the prestigious Booker Prize Award. His next novel, " Shame " based on contemporary politics in Pakistan, was also popular, but Rushdie's fourth novel, ' The Satanic Verses ' encountered a different reception. This novel becomes the subject of a major controversy provoking protest from the Muslims in several countries. He was even threatened to kill by issuing a fatwa against him. Despite, the standing death threat, Rushdie co