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Christina Weiss

John Keats- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - 3 views

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  • Around this time, Keats met Leigh Hunt, an influential editor of the Examiner, who published his sonnets "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and "O Solitude." Hunt also introduced Keats to a circle of literary men, including the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth
  • While nursing his brother, Keats met and fell in love with a woman named Fanny Brawne. Writing some of his finest poetry between 1818 and 1819
  • summer of 1818 on
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  • summer of 1818
  • July 1820, he published his third and best volume of poetry
  • The book received enthusiastic praise from Hunt, Shelley, Charles Lamb, and others, and in August, Frances Jeffrey, influential editor of the Edinburgh
  • He continued a correspondence with Fanny Brawne and—when he could no longer bear to write to her directly—her mother, but his failing health and his literary ambitions prevented their getting married.
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    This Biography is a bit more meaty than the last. Sorry, I had a bit of difficulty with the highlighting.
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    This article gives more information about his writing career. His first work was disliked, but eventually he became more succesfull. It would have been interesting to see how far his career would have gotten if he had not gotten tubercolosis and if people would appreciate his later works as well.
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    In another part of the article it says that Keats did not like Shelley much, even though they were pretty well aquainted. I think this is rather interesting, but I guess it is not that unusal. Shelley gave keats some good advice though, and he ignored it. I think this would be a good example of destructive behavior.
Christina Weiss

John-Keats.com - 2 views

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    This gives a brief description of Keats' life
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    I could not figure out how to do the sticky notes, so I thought I should put my comments here. -This tells us who Keats loved, but according to our textbook he fell iin love with her when she was 18. It is rather irritating to find conflicting sources, but the book is probabl more accurate. There is not much else on her here. -It talks about how he switched from learning to be a doctor to poet, which is common so far with romantic poets. They seem to switch careers. However it surprised me that he knew Shelley, It did not say that in the textbook.
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