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John KeatsMiss Latter
Why should you care about John Keats?
• Wordsworth described good poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings.”
• John Keats was extraordinarily sensitive to the ambivalences of human
experience – the intensity of pleasure and pain, the destructiveness of love,
the longing for death.
• Keats only lived for 25 years, but in that time managed to produce an array of
sensual poems that have reverberated across literature and popular culture.
FUN FACT! Keats was friends with Wordsworth and Shelley, the renowned Romantic poets. Imagine their conversations at dinner parties!
John Keats
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Hometown: North London
Relationship Status: It’s complicated with Fanny Brawne
Employer: Thomas Hammond
Education: Enfield Academy
Religion: Unconcerned
People Who Inspire Me: John Clarke, ShakespeareFavorite Quotations Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. – Edmund
SpenserFavorite Books: The Faerie Queen - Spenser
Activities: Daily walks in Winchester, six week walking tour in Scotland with mates
Critics: A ‘middle class interloper’
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1795 - Born1803 – begins
Education at Enfield1804 – father trampled
by a horse
1805 –mother deserts family, lawsuit over
grandfather’s money
1809 – mother returns. 1810 - mother dies of
tuberculosis
Left school at 16 to become a surgeon
Wrote his first poems in 1814
1816 – abandoned the apprenticeship to write
poetry
1817 – first volume published
1818 – beloved brother Thomas dies of
tuberculosis, other brother George
emigrates to America
1819 –meets, engaged to Fanny Brawne,
contracts tuberculosis
Ventures off to Italy on Doctor’s orders
1821 – death. He has become the epitome of
the young, beautiful, doomed poet.
Pivotal Events in Keats’ Life
Some of the topics he wrote about• Nature• Departures• The Ancient World• The inevitability of death• The contemplation of beauty• The fear of not being remembered
Fanny Brawne• 1818, Tom dies. Keats moved to his friend Charles
Brown's house in Hampstead.
• Meets and falls deeply in love with neighbour Fanny
Brawne (18yrs).
• He wrote one of his more famous sonnets to her titled
"Bright Star” and a series of love letters
• While their relationship was a spiritual one, it also
proved to be tempestuous, filled with the highs and lows
from jealousy and infatuation of first love.
• This was the beginning of Keats' most creative period.
He wrote, among others, 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci',
'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'To Autumn’.
H/W
• Find a quote you particularly like from either Keats’ love
letters or poetry.
• Print out your quote and bring it next lesson so that we can
stick it up on the wall.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.