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what class was keats
lower class
why could keats never marry fanny brawne?
finacial problems and illness
in what year was the french revolution?
1789
did the 1st gernation romantics support the french revolution
no - they actually benefited from the class sytem (lord byron etc) - this can be seen in their use of the nickname cockney poet when reffering to keats
what time period was the industrial revolution?
1750-1830
when where the luddite disturbances and what where they?
1811-17 factories and mills were attacked and machines destroyed in protest of the industrial revolution
what year was the Peterloo massacre and what was it?
1819 -meeting in support of parliamentary reform - the speakers were arrested and the crows violently dispersed
characteristics of romanticism
- value feeling and emotion over reason
- intrest in investigation of the self
- nature as a means of understanding self
- focus on imagination and transience
- rebellion against political institutions
Keats admired Wordsworth but he was wary of his …..
‘egotistical sublime’ - the way he can be seen to force his own philosophy onto the readers of his poetry
Keats letter
‘I am certain of …..
i am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections and the truth of the imagination
Keats letters
‘what the imagination …..’
what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth
keats letters
‘Negative capability….
negative capability that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties
Keats letters
‘the poet has …
the poet has no identity (links to his idea of being a chameleon poet)
keats letters
he will not spend any time …
any time with ladies unless they are handsome
keats letters
‘abhorred….
abhorred tyranny
what did keats think about religion?
he despised the established church ‘the pious frauds of religion’ but admired christ
what did keats think would happen after he died?
‘i think i shall be among the english poets after my death’
