Keats is an author that belongs to the same poetic group as P

J. Keats:

Keats is an author that belongs to the same poetic group as P. Shelley. He wrote his first book in 1817, a group of poems; the second one is an adaptation of a Greek myth and the Moon God, to express the search of the ideal love. In 1820 published his third book, about some mythical topics in Old Age, Medieval time and Renaissance. In this book appears the poem with the title “The Autumn”, a fantastic lyric work. Also this poem, there are some Odes about nature, a typical theme in Romantic time.

“The subject of the relationship of Romanticism to nature is a vast one which can only be touched on here”.

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“'To Autumn' is perhaps Keats's most famous and beloved work. It is considered the perfect embodiment of poetic form, intent, and effect. It was written in Winchester on 19 September 1819 and first published in 1820 Keats described the feeling behind its composition in a letter to his friend Reynolds, 'Somehow a stubble plain looks”.

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Such poems as “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “To Autumn,” and “Ode on Melancholy” are unequalled for dignity, melody, and richness of sensuous imagery. All of his poetry is filled with a mysterious and elevating sense of beauty and joy.

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A fragment of “Ode to a Nightingale”:

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,

Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,

But on the viewless wings of Poesy,

Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:

Already with thee! tender is the night,

And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,

Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays;

But here there is no light,

Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown

Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.

(4^th stanza from http://www.john-keats.com/ 28/10/2006)

A fragment of “To Autumn”:

SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

(1^st stanza from http://www.john-keats.com/ 28/10/2006)

As we can observe, “To Autumn” shows the enormous importance that have the contact with the nature. Keats defines autumn as the opportunity to be happy, that is, that any contact with nature defines the happiness thought the nature itself and not by concrete situations or the feelings that this season would provoke.

In the second book we can find this Ode that we have above, but this are inside one of the better works that have his author, Hyperion; also this contain works as the lyric poem “To Autumn” and the three Odes, Ode to a Nightingale is one of these. In these three the author is compared the eternal and transcendental nature with the physical world.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

- http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=1883

Section: John Keats

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- http://www.john-keats.com/

Section: Poems

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- http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0827261.html

Section: Enciclopedia: John Kyats

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- http://englishhistory.net/keats/poetry/toautumn.html

Section: Life and works of John Keats