John Keats

 "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 (Leigh Hunt) could not stop his poetic zest to produce this fragment of poetry as a tribute to John Keats, a gem-studded in the ornament of English Literature.

The first literary frame was blown off by the two leading literary magazines- 'The Quarterly Reviews' and 'The Blackwood's Magazines' and this was the first among the three events of his life that influenced him very much. The other two being the tragic death of Tom and frustration in love with Fanny Browne. Leigh Hunt for wise and generous encouragement of direction and at a time when he was all tremulous and delight at the imaginative feast before him, there come another revelation of Greek art and life through the medium of Chapman's Homer. The splendid sincerity. of that famous sonnet attests to the mental state of a man. 

Keats erotic Hostalgia and violent pity are things that every boy will not find sympathetic till he is about sixteen. He took from Medievalism and Hellenism material from fashioning his sequestered land of beauty. Keats is content to express her through the senses, the color, the scent, the touch, the pulsating music. These are the things that stir him to depths; there is not a wood of earth he does not love, nor a season that will not cheer and inspire him. Keats's world is soft, quiet, and cool against the rich background, the images which are most synaesthetic transmit sensations peculiarly apt to the situations.

In the Odes, the visual imagery is not over-emphasized with a corresponding flatness of result but rather you tend to touch, to smell, to taste, to feel the living warmth of one object after another. The Odes of Keats are among the mightiest achievements of English verse. the note of sadness sounds through all that insistent minor that rings dirge-like through all the haunting music of nature and of art and the glamour of romance. The tensions of nature's varying moods are contrasted with the mutability of life and the transcience of pleasure.


                             



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