Introduction Keats Flashcards
(20 cards)
How long was keats’ poetic life?
6 years
How does Matthew Arnold describe keats?
He is, he is with Shakespeare
Keats is remembered for his?
Odes
Which ode of keats is the most anthologised?
Ode to a Nightingale
Characteristic of keats poetry
Sensual imagery.
Which inn keats’ father was a hostler at?
Swan and hoop
Siblings of keats family
Thomas Keats and frances jennings. Parents
George, thomas and Mary( fanny) were siblings
School of keats
Not eton or harrow, john Clarkes school.
Who introduced him to renaissance literature?
Headmaster’s son charles cowden clarke.
Tasso, spencer, and chapman’s translations.
What was keats’ occupation after leaving Clarkes school?
Apprentice to a surgeon.
What was his occupation
He joined as a medical student and became a registered doctor.
What was keats’ first extant poem?
Line in imitation of Spencer in 1814
Who introduced keats to leigh hunt?
Clarke. Charles cowden
Who inspires keats to start a literary career?
Leigh Hunt and Byron
Which poem did he publish with the help of Leigh Hunt?
O solitude in the examiner in 1816.
Where did Hunt hailed keats, Shelley and Reynold as the most promising writers of their generation?
In the young poets issue of the examiner in November 1816.
Which other work was published in 1816? Keats
On looking into chapman’s Homer
Which was the shorter poem of keats?
- I stood on tiptoe upon a little hill
- Sleep and poetry.
When was his first volume of poetry published?
1817 - “poems”
Where did keats be ridiculed as Cockney school? By whom?
In blackwoods magazine - john Wilson Croker.
