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John Keats
Keats’s poetry describes the beauty of the natural world and art as the vehicle for his poetic imagination. His skill with poetic imagery and sound reproduces this sensuous experience for his reader. His poetry evolves over his brief career from this love of nature and art into a passion for humanity.
John Keats (1795-1821)
John Keats: his early life
John Keats was born in London as the son of a essful livery-stable manager.
He was the oldest of four children, who remained deeply devoted to each other.
Keats was educated at the progressive Clarke's School in Enfield. Keats, who was barely five feet tall, was not known at school for his enthusiasm for books, but his fighting.
1811 Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon-apothecary (药剂师). While studying for the licence, pleted his translation of Aeneid (《埃涅伊德》written by Virgil).
John Keats: his literary career
Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene impressed him deeply and his first poem, written in 1814, was 'Lines in Imitation of Spenser.'
In that year he moved to London and there he met Leigh Hunt, editor of the leading liberal magazine of the day, The Examiner.
Hunt introduced Keats to other young Romantics, including Shelley, and published in the magazine Keats's , 'O Solitude'.
Keats's first book, Poems, was published in 1817. Sales were poor.
John Keats: his literary career
Endymion 《恩底弥翁》, Keats's first long poem appeared, when he was 21. It told in 4000 lines of the love of the moon goddess Cynthia for the young shepherd Endymion. It was attacked by critics at that time.
Keats‘s greatest works were written in the late 1810s, among them Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes, the great odes and two versions of Hyperion 《龙神亥伯》.
He spent summer of 1818 touring the Lakes, Scotland and Northern Ireland. During his journey, he vowed: "I shall learn poetry here and shall henceforth write more than ever."
John Keats and Fanny Brawn
Keats felt fortable with women and contemptuous of them. In July 1