Keats Context
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- Keats Context
- Biographical
- Mother, father, grandmother and grandfather died 1804-1814
- A medical student at Guy's Hospital in London
- Meets Fanny Brawne 1818, engaged in 1819
- Relationship probably never consumated
- Tom dies 1818
- Keats begins to feel 'rather unwell' with TB in 1919
- Haemorrhage in 1920
- Travels to Rome to die in 1821
- Haemorrhage in 1920
- Mocked in Blackwood's Magazine 1817, linked to 'cockney school'
- Historical
- Elgin Marbles brought to England 1816, Keats saw them 1817
- Industrial Revolution, rejected by Romantics
- Lines in Isabella preempting Marx's 1848 Communist Manifesto
- Revolutionary politics
- American War of Independance 1776
- French Revolution 1789
- 1803-1815 Napoleonic Wars
- Slave trade abolished 1807
- Literary
- Hazlitt's theory of disinterested sympathy influenced Keats' negative capability
- Keats writes a letter to his brothers on it in 1817
- Letter to George: Keats said the world was not a 'vale of tears' but a 'vale of soul making'
- Most of the Odes written 1819
- Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads in 1798
- Use of the epic linking to Homer and Milton (links to Hyperion)
- Chapman's translation of Homer 1614
- Letter to Benjamin Bailey 1817 'what the imagination seizes and beauty must be true'
- Hazlitt's theory of disinterested sympathy influenced Keats' negative capability
- Cultural
- Keats' work a favourite subject of the Pre Raphaelites
- Millais' 'Madeline **********' - visual representation of 'mermaid' metephor
- Dicksee's 'The Belle Dame Sans Merci' (1901) - luscious nature depicted
- Neo-Classical movement based on harmony, order, restraint
- Winkelman's ‘Reflections on the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks’ - 'noble simplicity and calm elegence
- Canova- especially Cupid and Psyche
- Keat's classical knowledge from Biblioteca Classica
- Traced vases from the Musee Napoleon in Haydon's house
- Links to sketches of Flaxman
- Excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 18th c
- Romanticism- focus on feeling and individual experience
- Constable- Romantic treatment of nature and atmospheric effects
- 1818 Friedrich's Wanderer Over the Sea of Fog
- Lone figure i.e. Byronic Hero
- Championed revolution, imagination, the rights of man, the sublime power of nature
- Turner's sublime nature and somewhat rejection of the industrial revolution e.g. in 'The Fighting Temeraire'
- 'Dream Vision'- dreams as creative gateways
- Keats' work a favourite subject of the Pre Raphaelites
- Biographical
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