John Keats 英国文学史及选读课件.ppt

Portrait of Keats Portrait of John Keats in Rome, shortly before his death from tuberculosis(肺结核) in February 1821, by his friend Joseph Severn. Keats’ Life Story Keats’ Life Story John Keats’ Life Keats House, Rome Keats and his friend Joseph Severn arrived in Rome in November 1820. They found lodgings in a house near the Spanish Steps. Keats rallied(重整旗鼓) a little at first, and was able to take gentle walks and rides, but by early December he was confined to bed, extremely ill with a high fever. Keats died peacefully, clasping his friends hand, on 23 February 1821. Major literary works 1) Poems，《诗集》，his first book. Major literary works 2) Five long poems Major literary works 3. Short Poems (1) On a Grecian Urn，“希腊古 瓮颂”. (2) On the Grasshopper and the Cricket，“蛐蛐与蟋蟀”. (3) Bright Star “闪亮的星星” (4) When I have Fear”当我害怕的时候” (5) To Autumn，“秋颂”. (6) On Melancholy，“ 忧郁颂”. (7) To a Nightingale，“夜莺颂”, the best known. Critical reception of his poetry - not much read during his lifetime - harshly judged by critics - belief arose that negative criticism hastened his death (see Norton p. 767 for refutation of this theory) Keats wrote to his brother George I think I shall be among the English poets after my death“ - but wrote this for his own epitaph: Here lies one whose name was writ in water - reputation (like Blakes) established by later Victorians Critical reception of his poetry - Tennyson considered him the greatest poet of the 19th C the Victorian critic Arthur Hallam (editor and close friend of Tennyson) contrasted Keats and Shelley as poets of sensation with Wordsworth as a poet of reflection” - literary criticism at first echoed this judgment, focusing on the philosophical implications of Wordsworths writing, but limiting discussion of Keats to the aesthetic aspects of his poetry - Keats began to be treated as a serious thinker and literary theorist with the publication of his letters in the twentieth century (see Norton p. 828) Comments on John Ke