Summary When Keats experiences feelings of fear (1) that he may die before he has written the volumes of poetry that he is convinced he is capable of writing, (2) that he may never write a long metrical romance, fragments of which float through his mind, and (3) that he […]
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Summary Keats has wide experience in the reading of poetry and is familiar with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but not until now has he had the special aesthetic enjoyment to be gained from reading Homer in the translation of George Chapman. For him, the discovery of Homer as translated by […]
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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 […]
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