ENGL200B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Patron Saint, Edmund Spenser, Romantic Poetry
11 Sep 2016
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Summarize the main events in the life of keats. Articulate some of the personal and political frustrations that underlie the poetry of. Analyze the role of both desire and loss in the romantic poetry of keats. John keats: the eve of st. agnes , longman p. 477. Ode on a grecian urn , longman p. 494. Keats: sonnet: when i have fears , longman p. 476. Son of hostler (took care of horses outside of an inn: think mechanic. Mother was often absent; died when keats was 14. Trained as apothecary (not quite a doctor, but better than a pharmacist) Legal trouble getting inheritance; unable to marry (fannie brawne) due to lack of money. Died in rome of tuberculosis at age 25: wrote his own epitaph on gravestone here lies one whose name was writ in water. , didn"t expect much fame. Sensualist: life of sensation is central to his work.
