John Keats a poet of beauty literary works

John Keats

(Born October 31, 1795, London, England— Died February 23, 1821, Rome, Papal States [Italy])

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all

ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

(Born October 31, 1795, London, England—

Died February 23, 1821, Rome papal, states [Italy]),

John Keats Ever Beautiful lyrical Poet & one of the most famous poets of the Romantic era in English literature. He is a symbol of scenic beauty, eternal youth and master of imagination, artist of expression. He is one of the few poets to have made significant contributions to the romantic genre of English literature that began in the late eighteenth century.

He was born at the beginning of a new era in English literature. Although he left the world at the age of 25, he practiced literature for only 5-6 years he had made this short life memorable with his unique imagination, powerful emotion and intense attraction to the bewitching beauty of nature & perfection of poetry.

His first fully fledged poem is the sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (1816), which was inspired by George Chapman’s classic 17th-century translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey. His first Poems book was published in March 1817 and here Keats’s use of a loose form of the heroic couplet and light cadence. The most interesting poem in this volume is “Sleep and Poetry”. The middle section of which contains a prophetic view of his own poetical progress. He belief himself bewitching natural beauty instead of the agony and strife of human hearts. His first long poem Endymion composed in 1818. Keats transformed the tale to express the widespread Romantic theme of the attempt to find in actuality an ideal love that catch sight of only in imaginative appetency.

Keats had written Isabella or the story of the Pot of Basil’ in 1817–18. In 1819 that all his greatest poetry was written—Lamia “The Eve of St. Agnes,” the great odes - On Indolence, On a GrecianUrn, To Psyche, To aNightingale, On Melancholy,” and To Autumn and the two versions of Hyperion.

This poetry was composed marked by careful and considered development, technical, emotional, and intellectual. Isabella which Keats himself called a weak-sided poem contains some of the emotional weaknesses of Endymion, but The Eve of St. Agnes may be considered the perfect culmination of Keats’s earlier poetic style. It conveys an atmosphere of passion and excitement in its description of the elopement of a pair of youthful lovers. Lamia is another narrative poem and is a deliberate attempt to reform some of the technical weaknesses of Endymion.

Ode to Nightingale is a metaphor for human life. Here the current of life and death is flowing side by side. Ode to Autumn- An opposite idea has emerged; here the poet has found profound beauty.This theme is taken up more distinctly in the Ode to Grecian urn The figures of the lovers depicted on the Greek urn become for him the symbol of an enduring.The ode to melancholy recognizes that sadness is the inevitable accompanying of human passion and happiness and that the transience of joy and desire is an inevitable aspect of the natural process.

In 1819, Keats wrote La Belle Dame sans Merci, a supernatural ballad about love.So, as Endymion was an allegory of the fate of the lover of beauty in the world, Hyperion was perhaps to be an allegory of the poet as creator.

Keats's genius flourished in his Ode. If Keats had written only Ode, he would still be considered a poet of English literary stature. All his heart and mind were bound in the paradise of beauty. In all his creations he was a worshiper of beauty and sweetness. But her specialty was not only in the description of beauty, but also in her ability to find real beauty. Among the seemingly insignificant objects he finds beauty, he calls depression the complement of beauty. To him the existence of this mysterious beauty hidden in the midst of nature was a great truth. And so he said, "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty." There is also a deep sense of peace in beauty.

There is also sadness in this calmness. This sadness comes from the thought of the immortality of short-lived life in the poet's mind, from the futility of human destiny. Yet he has perpetuated the beauty that he has enjoyed with the five senses in his odes.

Keats also wrote many sonnets. Among the sonnets, the small thoughts of the poet's mind sparkle like pearls. Here, too, are the wonders of that primitive intense imagination, the solitary lustful longing of solitary nature, the perceptual sensations, and the touches of Greek aesthetics.

Keats literary works

Poetry collections

1819 odes (1819)

Short poems

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (1816)

"Sleep and Poetry" (1817)

"Ode to a Nightingale" (1819)

"La Belle Dame sans Merci" (1820)

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1820)

"Ode on Melancholy" (1820)

"Ode to Psyche" (1820)

"To Autumn" (1820)