Keats spluttered and coughed to full wakefulness, and steadied himself with a stiff brandy. |
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Finally, one turned and Julian Keats found himself looking at letters, yellowing bundles of them, all in chronological order. |
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And at its best, its writing has the lyricism of Keats, the precision of Williams, or the echoic qualities of haiku. |
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Keats was criticised as uncouth and inharmonious but is now venerated as one of our greatest Romantic poets. |
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Opening the poem to contemporary reading and readers opens the context that, to Shelley's mind, he shared most intimately with Keats. |
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I shall be in a study contemplating a bust of Keats looking as though he is contemplating a bust of Homer. |
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Setting poems by John Keats and William Wordsworth, Braithwaite developed a love of lyric poetry that inspired his own writing. |
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Like Keats, in a few short months she wrote the poems on which her giant reputation now rests. |
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Keats then ran up to the victim, yelled, 'Don't tell my dogs to shut up,' and began shooting at the victim. |
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Keats evokes a feeling of drowsy calm with his long vowel sounds and sibilance, while Hardy's adjectives prolong the description, and add a gentleness to the scene. |
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The encounter between Keats and his neighbor ended nonlethally only by good luck. |
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Instead of subjecting description to action, as do Homer and Virgil in their narrativizing descriptions, Keats defamiliarizes the adjective and lingers on it. |
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In later years, Woodhouse was one of the few people to accompany Keats to Gravesend to embark on his final trip to Rome. |
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By lending so much, Keats could no longer cover the interest of his own debts. |
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On 11 April 1818, Keats and Coleridge had a long walk together on Hampstead Heath. |
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In June 1818, Keats began a walking tour of Scotland, Ireland, and the Lake District with his friend Charles Armitage Brown. |
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John Keats moved to the newly built Wentworth Place, owned by his friend Charles Armitage Brown. |
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Keats may have seemed to his friends to be living on comfortable means, but in reality he was borrowing regularly from Abbey and his friends. |
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Keats befriended Isabella Jones in May 1817, while on holiday in the village of Bo Peep, near Hastings. |
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Keats began to lend Brawne books, such as Dante's Inferno, and they would read together. |
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Keats endured great conflict knowing his expectations as a struggling poet in increasingly hard straits would preclude marriage to Brawne. |
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In September 1820 Keats left for Rome knowing he would probably never see Brawne again. |
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During 1820 Keats displayed increasingly serious symptoms of tuberculosis, suffering two lung haemorrhages in the first few days of February. |
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Keats reached Rome on 14 November, by which time any hope of the warmer climate he sought had disappeared. |
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What Severn didn't realise was that Keats saw it as a possible resource if he wanted to commit suicide. |
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As a result Keats went through dreadful agonies with nothing to ease the pain at all. |
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Severn nursed him devotedly and observed in a letter how Keats would sometimes cry upon waking to find himself still alive. |
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John Keats died in Rome on 23 February 1821 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. |
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Clark saw to the planting of daisies on the grave, saying that Keats would have wished it. |
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The ashes of Shelley, one of Keats's most fervent champions, are buried in the cemetery and Joseph Severn is buried next to Keats. |
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Shelley often corresponded with Keats in Rome and loudly declared that Keats's death had been brought on by bad reviews in the Quarterly Review. |
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The Victorian sense of poetry as the work of indulgence and luxuriant fancy offered a schema into which Keats was posthumously fitted. |
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The largest collection of the letters, manuscripts, and other papers of Keats is in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. |
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A Royal Society of Arts blue plaque was unveiled in 1896 to commemorate Keats at Keats House. |
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These early writings coloured all subsequent biography and have become embedded in a body of Keats legend. |
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Landmark Keats biographers since include Sidney Colvin, Robert Gittings, Walter Jackson Bate and Andrew Motion. |
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Inspired by the 1997 Keats biography penned by Andrew Motion, it stars Ben Whishaw as Keats and Abbie Cornish as Fanny. |
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In Dan Wells's book A Night of Blacker Darkness, John Keats is portrayed in a comedic tone. |
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In spring 1818 the poet John Keats spent several weeks in Teignmouth and completed his epic poem Endymion here. |
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In Dan Simmons' book Hyperion, one of the characters is a clone of John Keats, of whom he possesses personality and memories. |
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The alcove now houses the statue of John Keats, an English Romantic poet who studied at Guy's Hospital from 1815 to 1816 to become an apothecary. |
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The poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. |
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John Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795 to Thomas Keats and his wife, born Frances Jennings. |
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Keats believed that he was born at the inn, a birthplace of humble origins, but there is no evidence to support his belief. |
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In the family atmosphere at Clarke's, Keats developed an interest in classics and history, which would stay with him throughout his short life. |
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In March 1810 when Keats was 14, his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving the children in the custody of their grandmother. |
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William Walton, solicitor for Keats's mother and grandmother, definitely did know and had a duty of care to relay the information to Keats. |
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In the summer of that year, Keats went with Clarke to the seaside town of Margate to write. |
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In October 1816, Clarke introduced Keats to the influential Leigh Hunt, a close friend of Byron and Shelley. |
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Within a month of the publication of Poems they were planning a new Keats volume and had paid him an advance. |
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Hessey became a steady friend to Keats and made the company's rooms available for young writers to meet. |
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There are areas of his life and daily routine that Keats does not describe. |
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Shelley took part in the literary circle that surrounded Leigh Hunt, and during this period he met John Keats. |
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Keats replied with hopes of seeing him, but instead, arrangements were made for Keats to travel to Rome with the artist Joseph Severn. |
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A memorial was eventually created for Shelley at the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey, along with his old friends Lord Byron and John Keats. |
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As in the Serenade, Britten set words by a range of poets, who here include Shakespeare, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson and Wilfred Owen. |
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Or he may be classed as filling a niche today like that of Keats in a preceding epoch. |
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Influenced both by Ruskin and by John Keats, Morris began to spend more time writing poetry, in a style that was imitative of much of theirs. |
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The press also published editions of works by Keats, Shelley, Ruskin, and Swinburne, as well as copies of various Medieval texts. |
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He wrote poetry and read widely from eight or nine years of age and was especially fond of the works of John Keats and Shelley. |
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Keats had his coastline, the people of the Carolinas and Tennessee have their Smokeys. |
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I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell. |
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If Keats did not know this statement to be commonsensically true he would not have insisted so forcefully on the reverse. |
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Following to Milton, English poetry from Pope to John Keats exhibited a steadily increasing attention to the connotative, the imaginative and poetic, value of words. |
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What Keats and Hazlitt share perhaps above all is an emphasis on taste, on gusto as central to the poetic process, and both portray the poet as a ravener. |
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Most of the surviving portraits of Keats were painted after his death, and those who knew him held that they did not succeed in capturing his unique quality and intensity. |
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The medical attention Keats received may have hastened his death. |
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On 3 April 1819, Brawne and her widowed mother moved into the other half of Dilke's Wentworth Place, and Keats and Brawne were able to see each other every day. |
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Keats also reflected on the background and composition of his poetry, and specific letters often coincide with or anticipate the poems they describe. |
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During November 1818 she developed an intimacy with Keats, but it was shadowed by the illness of Tom Keats, whom John was nursing through this period. |
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In early December 1816, under the heady influence of his artistic friends, Keats told Abbey that he had decided to give up medicine in favour of poetry, to Abbey's fury. |
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Keats immediately changed publishers to Taylor and Hessey on Fleet Street. |
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Inspired by the death of Keats, in 1821 Shelley wrote the elegy Adonais. |
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Other Romantic writers that followed these figure further enhanced the profile of Romanticism in Europe, such as John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. |
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Keats was convinced that he had made no mark in his lifetime. |
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In these studies she is typically represented through the lens of the poet's various projects and projections, as a voice appropriated or ventriloquized by Keats. |
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Although he continued his work and training at Guy's, Keats devoted more and more time to the study of literature, experimenting with verse forms, particularly the sonnet. |
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That autumn, Keats left Clarke's school to apprentice with Thomas Hammond, a surgeon and apothecary who was a neighbour and the doctor of the Jennings family. |
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The cause of death was a skull fracture, suffered when he fell from his horse while returning from a visit to Keats and his brother George at school. |
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The influence of John Keats and other Romantic poets published before and during his childhood is evident from the richness of his imagery and descriptive writing. |
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