Keats AO3

Question 1

What did Keats say in a letter to his brother in 1817 about negative capability?

Answer 1

‘I mean negative capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties. Mysteries, doubts, without reaching after fact and reason’

Question 2

What did Keats say about the vale of soulmaking in a letter to George and Georgina Keats in 1819?

Answer 2

‘Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?’

Question 3

When did Keats read Robert Burton’s ‘Anatomy of Melancholy’ published in 1621?

Answer 3

1819

Question 4

What did Keats say about imagination?

Answer 4

‘My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk’

Question 5

What is Keats known for?

Answer 5

synaesthesia

Question 6

When did Keats meet Fanny Brawne?

Answer 6

1818

Question 7

When did Keats move to Hampstead to nurse his brother who was dying from TB?

Answer 7

1818, Fanny Brawne was the nextdoor neighbour