Key Context For Keats Flashcards
What was keats preoccupation with mortality
-his bereavements made him aware frailty human life
-father died riding accident when Keats 8
-mother died from TB when Keats 14
-brother died TB 1818
-1820 clear Keats suffering symptoms TB at 25 + died in Rome 1821 as thought warm air could cure him
-Keats exposed to suffering + death as worked as trainee surgeon which gave insight to mortality
What was his love life like
-1817 Isabella Jones when holiday near Hastings but never serious relationship
-end 1818 fell in love with 18 year old Fanny Brawne
-before end 1819 informally engaged but Keats financial difficulties + poor prospects made marriage impossible
-when travelled Italy in last futile attempt improve condition was heart broken at thought death separate him from Fanny
What were Keats ideas about poetry
-attitude to beauty truth + imagination
-believed sensory experience was vehicle through one perceived truth + beauty
-tried reverse world of sensation through imagery
-Keats claimed truth + beauty link perceived by transcending own identity
