John Keats was a prominent English Romantic poet born in 1795 in London. He wrote prolifically in his short career and is now considered one of the most influential British poets. He was part of the second generation of Romantic poets alongside Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Keats's poetry is characterized by lush sensory imagery, especially in his famous Odes. He was interested in themes of nature, beauty, imagination, and mortality. Though his life and career were brief, Keats made major contributions to Romantic poetry.

1. Name- Hariyani Kishan.R
Class- M.A.
Semester- 2
Enrolment Number- PG15101021
Email id- kishanhariyani1992@gmail.com
Paper no- 5 (Romantic Literature)
Submitted to- Smt. S B Gardi
Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

2.  John Keats was born on 31 October
1795 to Thomas and Frances Jenin's
Keats in central London.
 Keats was prolific in his short writing
life, and is now one of the most studied
and admired of British poets.

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4.  John Keats Was one of the main figures of the second
generation of Romantic poets along with Byron and
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
 Poetry characterised by sensual imagery most notably in the
series of Odes.
 In May 1816, his sonnet “O Solitude” appeared first time in
print version in the magazine The Examiner.
 Defined poems, in effect, along with several other poets of his
period.

6.  Interest in lyric, the personal. Interest in the transcendent,
that which is beyond human understanding.
 Interest in the transcendent as it relates to nature.
 Interest in a glorified or romanticized past both with the
medieval and the classical.
 Interest in the role of the poet as well as in the creation of
his art.
 Interest in imagination, which intuitively connects with
nature and the transcendent and develops over time.

7.  Keats Was a foremost romantic dreamer. Everything
seemed beautiful under his pen, even the rockiest
and most sorrowful objects.
 Love and Death were desires for him.
 Wrote only for five years.
 Does not generally write about Nature, but uses it as
a device to make his poetry romantic and gentle.
 Works are on love and beauty but thoroughly are
mixed with his feelings of depression.

8.  He was not superficial. He sought out beauty, but
not the beauty of gold and diamonds. For him, love
and nature were beautiful, stars were beautiful.
Death was sublime.
 Was influenced by ancient mythology; texts by
Homer, Dante, Virgil, Shakespeare etc; fellow
romantic poets Shelley and Byron; Latin and
classical poet form.
 Wrote many “epic story poems” such as Hyperion
and Endymion.

9.  Poets of Romantic Movement gave priority
to the topics of lower class, common people
and countryside unlike the Neo-classical
poets, focusing on difficult and abstract
topics.
 Poets of this age followed blank verse and
prosaic style.
 Keats composed poems on Ode on a
Grecian Urn, Ode to the Nightingale, etc.
Odes and lyrics are the characteristics of
Romantic poets.

10.  There is effect of Hellenism in his poems but
his diction is countryside and natural. They
come out with the overflow of ideas.
 His following of beauty in all forms show his
love for nature. It reminds the slogan of
“Return to Nature”.
 Poems are enjoyed with great verve because of
his love for beauty whom he calls Beauty is
truth and truth beauty.

11.  'The concept of Negative Capability is the ability to
contemplate the world without the desire to try and
reconcile contradictory aspects or fit it into closed
and rational systems.‘
 “Negative Capability” — the willingness to embrace
uncertainty, live with mystery, and make peace with
ambiguity.