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John Keats
(1795-1821 / London / England)
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92 poems of John Keats
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''Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.''
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. letter, Oct. 9, 1818. Letters of John Keats, no. 90, ed. Frederick Page (1954).
Despite Shelley's assertion ...
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion—I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more—I could be martyred for my religion—Love is my religion—I could die for tha...
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. letter, Oct. 13, 1819, to his fiancée Fanny Brawne. Letters of John Keats, no. 160, ed. Frederick Page (1954).
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''Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?''
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. letter, Feb. 14-May 3, 1819, to his brother and sister-in-law, George and Georgiana Keats. Letters of John Keats...
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''It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.''
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. letter, Feb. 19, 1818. Letters of John Keats, no. 48, ed. Frederick Page (1954).
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Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know.... I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see ...
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Letter, August 28, 1819, to his sister Fanny Keats. Letters of John Keats, no. 146, ed. Frederick Page (1954).
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''Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?''
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Lines on the Mermaid Tavern (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) ...
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''Bards of Passion and of Mirth
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Have ye souls in heaven too,''
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode: Bards of passion and of mirth (l. 1-3). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed.,...
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''"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"Mthat is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.''
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn, st. 5, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems (1820).
Closing lines.
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''What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?''
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn (l. 8-10). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Pengui...
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''Thou still unravished bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.''
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John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn, st. 1 (1820).
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