Sara Valle Marco
Professor Dr. Forés
English Philology
29 November 2007

"The Human Seasons"

• Place where the poem belongs

As most of his works the poem “The Human Seasons” belongs to a letter dated 13 March 1818, in this case it was written to Benjamin Bailey at Teignmouth. It was later included in his “Poems” published in 1819.

Keats developed his poetic theories, chief among them negative capability in letters to friends and family.

• John Keat's Life and relation with his poetry:

He was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from the periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats's poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature . Keats's letters, which expound on his aethestic theory of " negative capability ", are among the most celebrated by any writer.

I t was Keats's faculty for translating into poetry all the stormy feelings of a trying period. Within this time his brother died of tuberculosis, and Keats began his painfully soul-searching love affair with Fanny Brawne, the girl who lived next door in Hampstead. (Poet Gittings suggests that).

"The Human Seasons"