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5 giorni fa · It was during the year 1819 that all his greatest poetry was written—“Lamia,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” the great odes (“On Indolence,” “On a Grecian Urn,” “To Psyche,” “To a Nightingale,” “On Melancholy,” and “To Autumn”), and the two versions of Hyperion.
5 giorni fa · All his greatest poetry was written in a single year, 1819: “Lamia,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” the great odes (“On Indolence,” “On a Grecian Urn,” “To Psyche,” “To a Nightingale,” “On Melancholy,” and “To Autumn”), and the two unfinished versions of an epic on Hyperion.
- John Keats was an English Romantic lyric poet whose verse is known for its vivid imagery and great sensuous appeal. His reputation grew after his e...
- John Keats’s father, a livery-stable manager, died when he was eight, and his mother remarried almost immediately. Throughout his life, Keats was c...
- John Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon in 1811. He broke off the apprenticeship in 1814 and went to London, where he worked as a dresser, or junio...
- John Keats wrote sonnets, odes, and epics. All his greatest poetry was written in a single year, 1819: “Lamia,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” the great o...
- John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome in 1821 at the age of 25.
2 giorni fa · Byron's magnum opus, Don Juan, a poem spanning 17 cantos, ranks as one of the most important long poems published in England since John Milton's Paradise Lost. Byron published the first two cantos anonymously in 1819 after disputes with his regular publisher over the shocking nature of the poetry.
2 giorni fa · Julian and Maddalo is an autobiographical poem which explores the relationship between Shelley and Byron and analyses Shelley's personal crises of 1818 and 1819. The poem was completed in the summer of 1819, but was not published in Shelley's lifetime.
2 giorni fa · Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was one of the true mavericks of 1800s English-language poetry, practically inventing the ‘modern’ (i.e. mid-1800s to early-1900s) ‘serious’ short poem, and along with Walt Whitman would become a touchstone for the post-1913 explosion of ‘new’ verse.
2 giorni fa · T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was born American, migrating to England in 1914, and he was "arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century." He produced some of the best-known poems in the English language, including "The Waste Land" (1922) and Four Quartets (1935–1942).
5 giorni fa · Ode To A Nightingale. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains. One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness ,- That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees. In some melodious plot.
