A Painful Year 1818

Question 1

Why 1818 is a painful year in the life of john keats.?

Answer 1

1. His brother tom died of tb at the end of the year.
2. Second brother George moved to America with his wife.
3. Endymion was brutally criticised in blackwoods magazine and quarterly review.

Question 2

How does byron describe the attack of Endymion by magazines?

Answer 2

Keats was ultimately “snuffed out by an article”

Question 3

How does Shelley blame the magazines? Where?

Answer 3

Adonais - shelley blames the critics for speeding the death of the poet.

Question 4

Poems written by keats in 1819?

Answer 4

1. The eve of st agnes
2. La bella dame sans merci.
3. Hyperion
4. Lamia

Poems

Play : otho the great ( written with charles brown)