John_Keats..ppt

John Keats (1795—1821) John Keats 1795-1821 English romantic poet. He is considered one of the greatest English poets. Keats’s Life Came from a poor background, son of a liver-stable keeper, lost his parents early in life, and was apprenticed at 15 to a doctor. Had no formal education or literary training. Made up for deficiency with voracious reading. Read well in Greek and Elizabethan literature, and had Homer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton among his literary passions. Misfortunes befell him ruthlessly. His brother died, and he contracted the terminal disease---tuberculosis. He loved a young girl, Fanny Browne, but had to cut off ties with her because of his illness and experienced the worse emotional torment for a human being. Later in life he went to Italy to improve his health. He continued a correspondence with Fanny Brawn and—when he could no longer bear to write to her directly his failing health and his literary ambitions prevented their getting married. John Keats died in Rome on 23 February 1821 and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was to be placed under a tombstone bearing no name or date, only the words, Here lies One whose Name was writ in Water.“ 此地长眠者，声名水上书。 When Keats died at 25, he had been writing poetry seriously for only about six years, from 1814 until the summer of 1820; and publishing for only four. In his lifetime, sales of Keatss three volumes of poetry probably amounted to only 200 copies Although prolific during his short career, and now one of the most studied and admired British poets, his reputation rests on a small body of work. Major works Long poems: Endymion《恩底弥翁》 Isabella《伊莎贝拉》 The Eve of St. Agnes《圣爱格尼斯之夜》 Lamia 《莱米亚》 Hyperion 《赫披里昂》 Short lyrics: four odes, his most important Ode on a Grecian Urn《希腊古瓮颂》 Ode on Melancholy《哀感》 Ode to a Nightingale《夜莺颂》 To Autumn《秋颂》 His Position in English Literature Known as a sensuous poet.(给人以美的享受的诗人） A voice through which beauty expresses itself. He i