Abstract

KEATS AS A LAST ROMANTIC POET

Dr. Dhananjay Kumar Singh

Volume: 1 Issue: 2 2011

Abstract:

In the history of English poetry, John Keats in his poetry, his letters and his personal life is phenomenal in a special way. This critical study offers an account of Keats’s poetic development. By this development is meant Keats’s development as a mature writer of odes. Not satisfied with the blazing enthusiasm in his early poems Keats turn to the beauty and wisdom he articulates through his five important odes. The discussion here follows in a chronological order. It is possible to see in this study Keats’s contribution through his odes to the Romantic Movement and his innovative use of the poetic forms and his influence on the poetry that comes to be written later.

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References

• Robert Bridges, “A Critical Introduction to Keats” (London: Oxford University Press,1929), p.250.
• Helen Vendler, “The Odes of John Keats” (Cambridge, massachussetts: Harvard University Press, 1983),p.77
• Stephen Coote, “ John Keats A Life” (Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1996), p.325.