英美文学 人物介绍 John Keats(济慈) Major Works.pptVIP

A Thing of Beauty -- the Poetry of John Keats Brief Introduction of Keats’ Poems Keats’ poetry, characterized by exact and closely-knit construction, emotional descriptions, and by force of imagination, gives transcendental values to the physical beauty of the world. His artistic aim is to create a beautiful world of imagination as opposed to the miserable reality of his day. He sought to express beauty in all his poems. His leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”. Major Literary Works In John Keats’ short writing career of six or seven years, he produced a variety of kinds of works, including epic, lyric and narrative poems. Except his first poem, Lines in Imitation of Spenser (1814) and his first book, Poems, published in 1817, his major works can be divided into the five long poems and the short ones. Five Long Poems Endymion (Luna in Greek Mythology)恩底弥翁 (his first long poem) Isabella 伊莎贝拉 （The Pot of Basil） The Eve of St. Agnes 圣·爱格尼斯节前夕 Lamia 莱米亚 Hyperion 赫里波昂 Isabella Isabella, a young girl of a rich family, was in love with a poor servant called Lorenzo. Her two brothers, having discovered the love affair, trick Lorenzo away, murdered him and buried him in a forest. Isabella, besides herself with grief, found the body of her lover, buried the head in a flowerpot, set a plant of basil over it and brought it home. Her evil brothers found out the secret. So they stole the pot and discover the head. Isabella, deprived of her last comfort, died heart-broken. Hyperion The opening page of the manuscript of Keatss epic fragment, `Hyperion, begun in 1818 but not published until 1820, which was considered by Keatss contemporaries to be his greatest achievement, but by that time he had reached an advanced stage of his disease and was too ill to be encouraged. It was never finished. Short Poems On a Grecian Urn 希腊古瓮颂 On the Grasshopper and the Cricket蛐蛐与蟋蟀 Bright Star 闪亮的星星 When I have Fear 当我害怕的时候 To Autumn 秋颂 On Melancholy 忧郁颂 To a N