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Archive for November 22, 2008
Bright Star: A poem by John Keats
Nov 22nd
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of More >
Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff:a poem by John Keats
Nov 22nd
GIVE me women, wine, and snuff Untill I cry out “hold, enough!” You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection: For, bless my beard, they aye shall be My beloved Trinity.
A Thing of Beauty:An Everlasting poem by John Keats
Nov 22nd
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its lovliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to More >
Best Poems of John Keats
Nov 22nd
Some of the best poetical works by John Keats are as under:
- Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
- Bright Star
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode to a Nightingale
- On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
- The Human Seasons
- This More >
Pictures, Images and Portraits of John Keats
Nov 22nd
(charcoal) by Joseph Severn, c. 1816 This is the earliest surviving portrait of Keats
(oil on ivory) by Joseph Severn, 1819 This miniature was made and exhibited in 1819 .
Life Mask of John Keats: by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1816
Keats’ Death Mask:
Another Sketch of Keats:by Benjamin Robert Haydon, c. 1816
Sketch More >
Keats’ Death in Rome, a letter by Joseph Severn
Nov 22nd
Keats on his death bed:
Keats passed away on Friday, 23 February 1821, around 11:00 pm. This is the last known portrait of the poet.
Joseph Severn announced Keats’s death to Charles Brown (the best friend of Keats) in a letter dated 27 February 1821:
Rome. 27 February 1821.
My dear Brown,
He is gone–he died with More >
Keats’ letters – a Glimpse of Fanny Brawne
Nov 22nd
Keats met Fanny Brawne at Wentworth Place, and in the summer of 1819 they began to sit together in the garden reading poetry. Keats, writing to his brother shortly after the meeting, though Fanny,
“beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange.”
Keats remembered his meeting with Fanny as love at first site. He More >
John Keats and Fanny Brawne: A Tragic Love story
Nov 22nd
Keats and Fanny first met in the midst of great personal turmoil for the poet. His youngest brother Tom was desperately ill with tuberculosis; it had already killed their mother, would soon claim Tom and later Keats himself. And when their relationship began, its greatest obstacle was not illness More >