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While Keats lived in Brown’s Hampstead house, a plum tree grew next to the front door. One evening, Keats was sitting under the tree when he heard a nightingale singing from the tree. The poem begins by focusing on the speaker, sick at heart and in spirit, envious of the bird’s happiness.
Poems, by John Keats contained 30 poems presented in four sections, and culminated with his ambitious autobiographical poem ‘Sleep and Poetry’ in which he looks ahead to a ‘nobler life’ of imaginative achievement. The book also contained one poem of indisputable genius, the sonnet ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’.
John Keats Written on September 19, 1819, in Winchester, “To Autumn” is commonly considered one of the Keats’s most accomplished odes. In his 1963 biography of Keats, Walter Jackson…
Feb 1, 2015 · The Life of John Keats (1795-1821) – Key Facts, Information & Biography. John Keats was born on 31 October 1795, the first of Frances Jennings and Thomas Keats’s five children, one of whom died in infancy. His parents had been wed for barely a year when John was born. His maternal grandparents, John and Alice Jennings, were well-off and ...
To Autumn - Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to ...
John Keats Biography. John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, on the northern outskirts of London. His father was Thomas Keats, manager of the Swan and Hoop, a livery stable, and his mother was Frances Jennings, the daughter of the proprietor of the stables. In 1803, Keats entered John Clarke's school in Enfield, about ten miles from London.
John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized by an exuberant love of language and a rich, sensuous imagination, all of which contrasts sharply with the tragic circumstances of his short life. Keats succumbed to tuberculosis at age 26.
