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John Keats (1795-1821) Life Story Major Literary Works Major Features of Keats’s Poetry His Position in English Literature Major Literary Works Produced a variety of work, including epic, lyric （抒情诗）and narrative poems. Odes(颂诗,赋） are regarded as Keats’s most important and mature works Lines in Imitation of Spenser《仿斯宾塞》 (1814): his first poem On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816): his first important poem Sleep and Poetry (1817): expression of his own poetic aspirations Ode to a Nightingale 夜莺颂 Ode to a Nightingale（夜莺颂） My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: ‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness, -- That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. 我的心在痛，困顿和麻木 刺进了感官，有如饮过毒鸠， 　　 又象是刚刚把鸦片吞服， 　　 于是向着列斯忘川下沉： 　　 并不是我嫉妒你的好运， 　　 而是你的快乐使我太欢欣—— 　　 因为在林间嘹亮的天地里， 　　 你呵，轻翅的仙灵， 　　 你躲进山毛榉的葱绿和荫影， 　　 放开歌喉，歌唱着夏季。  Ode on a Grecian Urn (希腊古瓮颂）“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”美即是真，真即是美 Major Features of Keats’s Poetry characterized by exact and closely knit construction, sensual description, force of imagination,; always sensuous, colorful and rich in imagery; One great message --- the lasting power of beauty and its union with truth. Major subject matters of his poems –love beauty and suffering death 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 is, like Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, one of the indisputable great English poets. His Death Died in Rome of Tuberculosis（肺结核） He was buried in the Protestant cemetery (新教徒公墓) by the Aurelian wall (奥勒利安壁垒) * Keats’s poetry describes the beauty of the natural world and art as the vehicle for his poetic imagination. His skill with poetic imagery