Tuesday 7 June 2016

The Great Lyric Poet - John Keats



John Keats( 1795 -1821) is one of the greatest English romantic poets who was born in London. He lived a short period of time (25 years) but still he wrote 54 poems and it all published in famous magazines. His works got attracted by many people more after his death and becomes a beloved poet for all literature lovers. The works of Keats have various varieties such as sonnet, Spenserian romance and Miltonic epic.   


Works of John Keats

Signature of John Keats
  • Endymion
  • Hyperion
  • Lamia
  • Isabella or the Pot of Basil
  • The Eve of St. Agnes
  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  • Ode to a Nightingale
  • Ode to Autumn
  • Ode on a Grecian Urn
  • Ode to Psyche
  • On Melancholy

Ode to a Nightingale is one of the famous brilliant work by Keats speaks about the surroundings of the nature. It is a wonderful poem about a nightingale which builds nest in a tree and its lovely song but it has a negative theme on life and rejects the optimistic things of the world. The poem revels the hard truth the happiness of human life can't be everlasting but still its an amazing work that should be read by all poet lovers. After writing these fantastic works Keats died of tuberculosis in 1821, Italy.

Famous Quotes


The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.


I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.



                

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