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Born in London, Oct.31, 1795, the son of a livery stable keeper, Keats was orphaned
while still a child, and in 1811 he was apprenticed to a surgeon.As soon as he was
qualified, however, Keats left surgery for poetry, influenced by his friend the poet
Leigh Hunt, who encouraged him to write and also introduced him to many famous
poets of the day.
After producing several mediocre poems, Keats suddenly composed the remarkably
assured sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”(1816), soon to be followed
by his long, ambitious allegorical poem Endymion(1818).Written in the lush style of
Hunt - which Keats soon rejected - this work described the poet’s search for the ideal
beauty.After ita publication he was attacked as a member of Hunt’s “Cockney School”
of poetry in an article in Blackwoods’s Magazine.This and other severe attacks on
Keats had been killed by criticism.
Actually he died of tuberculosis, a disease against which both he and his brother
Tom long struggled; in 1818, Tom died, and shortly afterward Keats became aware that
he too had contracted consumption.His misery was exacerbated by his increasing ill
health, marriage was impossible.Throughout this anguished time, however, Keats was
producing his masterpieces.During 1819 alone, he composed The Eve of St.Agnes,
Lmia, the six great Odes(including “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “Ode to a
Nightingale”), and reworked his unfinished epic Hyperion into The Fall of Hyperion, in
which he examined his own poetic career and redicated himself to the strenuous art of
poetry.
By early 1820, Keats understood clearly that he was dying and in the fall traveled
with his his friend the painter Joseph Severn to Rome in an attempt to delay the
workings of the disease.From there he wrote agonized letters lamenting his loss of
love and the failure of his hopes of poetic excellence.He died on Feb.23, 1821, in the
house on the Spanish Steps that now forms a memorial to him and Shelley.
Keat’s short poetic life is unprecedented in English literature; between the ages of
18 and 24 he wrote poems of such power that they rank with the greatest in the
language.Taking in all the senses, they lyrically render the totality of an experience and
catch in their packed phrases the complexity of life in which pain and pleasure are
inextricably joined.
Song (1817)
Song (1817)Song (1817)
Song (1817)
I had a dove and the sweet dove died;
And I have though it died of grieving:
O, what could it grieve for?Its feet were tied
With a siken thread of my own hand’s weaving;
Sweet little red feet?Why should you die -
Why should you leave me, sweet bird!Why?
You lived alone in the forest-tree,
Why, pretty thing, would you not live with me?
I kissed you oft and gave you white peas;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees!
15 Born in London, Oct.31, 1795, the son of a livery stable keeper, Keats was orphaned while still a child, and in 1811 he was apprenticed to a surgeon.As soon as he was qualified, however, Keats left surgery for poetry, influenced by his friend the poet Leigh Hunt, who encouraged him to write and also introduced him to many famous poets of the day. After producing several mediocre poems, Keats suddenly composed the remarkably assured sonnet On First Looking into Chapmans Homer(1816), soon to be followed by his long, ambitious allegorical poem Endymion(1818).Written in the lush style of Hunt - which Keats soon rejected - this work described the poets search for the ideal beauty.After ita publication he was attacked as a member of Hunts Cockney School of poetry in an article in Blackwoodss Magazine.This and other severe attacks on Keats had been killed by criticism. Actually he died of tuberculosis, a disease against which both he and his brother Tom long struggled; in 1818, Tom died, and shortly afterward Keats became aware that he too had contracted consumption.His misery was exacerbated by his increasing ill health, marriage was impossible.Throughout this anguished time, however, Keats was producing his masterpieces.During 1819 alone, he composed The Eve of St.Agnes, Lmia, the six great Odes(including Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale), and reworked his unfinished epic Hyperion into The Fall of Hyperion, in which he examined his own poetic career and redicated himself to the strenuous art of poetry. By early 1820, Keats understood clearly that he was dying and in the fall traveled with his his friend the painter Joseph Severn to Rome in an attempt to delay the workings of the disease.From there he wrote agonized letters lamenting his loss of love and the failure of his hopes of poetic excellence.He died on Feb.23, 1821, in the house on the Spanish Steps that now forms a memorial to him and Shelley. Keats short poetic life is unprecedented in English literature; between the ages of 18 and 24 he wrote poems of such power that they rank with the greatest in the language.Taking in all the senses, they lyrically render the totality of an experience and catch in their packed phrases the complexity of life in which pain and pleasure are inextricably joined. Song (1817) I had a dove and the sw eet dove died; And I have though it died of grieving: O, w hat c ould it grieve for?Its feet w ere tied With a siken thread of my ow n hand’s w eaving; Sw eet little red feet?Why should you die - Why should you leave me, sw eet bird!Why? Y ou lived alone in the forest-tree, Why, pretty thing, w ould you not live w ith me? I kissed you oft and gave you w hite peas; Why not live sw eetly, as in the green trees!
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