John Keats
John Keats was an English Romantic poet who died at twenty-five but left enduring work—"Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn." His letters contain influential ideas about poetry, including "negative capability," the capacity to remain in uncertainty without grasping after fact or reason.
Keats is often invoked as the archetype of genius cut short: He might have been another Keats.
Laudatory verse form
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- verseMetered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- meterDevice that measures usage
rhyme · imagery · couplet · iambic · pentameter · ballad · elegy · epic
Faculty for forming ideas
- natureInherent quality or disposition
- emotionComplex psychological state
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
Wordsworth · Shelley · Byron · Coleridge · second generation · sensation · intensity · melancholy
Theory of beauty
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
- sensuousPleasing to the body
- truthAccordance with reality
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
perfection · radiance · splendor · ethereal · transcendence · idyllic · nightingale · autumn
Using up of resources
- tuberculosisMycobacterial lung disease
- deathCessation of life
- untimelyOccurring too soon
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
transience · doomed · youth · brevity · suffering · Hampstead · Rome · Spanish Steps
Intensely glowing celestial body
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
- posthumousOccurring after death
- influencePower to affect others
- VictorianOf a prim era
Pre-Raphaelites · Tennyson · neglected · rediscovered · genius · canonical · beloved · immortality
ode
Laudatory verse form
meter · rhyme · imagery · couplet · iambic · pentameter · ballad · elegy · epic · blank verse
imagination
Faculty for forming ideas
- natureInherent quality or disposition
- emotionComplex psychological state
- sublimeAwe-inspiring greatness
individualism · Wordsworth · Shelley · Byron · Coleridge · second generation · sensation · intensity · melancholy · idealism
aesthetics
Theory of beauty
harmony · perfection · radiance · splendor · ethereal · transcendence · idyllic · nightingale · autumn · richness
consumption
Using up of resources
- tuberculosisMycobacterial lung disease
- deathCessation of life
- untimelyOccurring too soon
ephemeral · transience · doomed · youth · brevity · suffering · Hampstead · Rome · Spanish Steps · twenty-five
bright star
Intensely glowing celestial body
- lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
- posthumousOccurring after death
- influencePower to affect others
Victorian · Pre-Raphaelites · Tennyson · neglected · rediscovered · genius · canonical · beloved · immortality · reputation
- Authors KStephen King, Dean Koontz, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Rudyard Kipling
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- poetrypoem, poems, poetry, verse, verses
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl
- Georgian BritonsJane Austen, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, William Blake, Walter Scott
- Regency eraseason, patronesses, patroness, Prince Regent, Jane Austen
John KeatsWilliam Wordsworth
Thomas Hardy · Robert Frost · Victor Hugo · Goethe · Walt Whitman
John KeatsLord Byron
Romantic period English poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley · John Milton · Alexander Pope · T.S. Eliot · W.B. Yeats