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JOHN KEATS(1795-1821) Match these topics to the paragraphs: 1. Birth and early life - ………….. 2.
Apprenticeship - ………….. 3. First poetry - ………….. 4. Travel. Hostile reviews on Endymion - ………….. 5. Further poetry, Fanny Brawn, final poems - ….. 6. Death in Italy and burial - ……… A) His first published poem On Solitude appeared in 1816.
In early 1817 he abandoned his medical career, and his first book of
poems, Poems, was published in March, but failed to achieve
recognition. A publishing house agreed to publish his future works, and
Keats began Endymion, an
epic poem: a
mythical story of the Latmian shepherd's love for the moon goddess. This year, Keats made a trip to the Isle of Wight, where he composed the
sonnet To the Sea. B) During the next few months, he wrote The Eve of St Agnes, La Belle
Dame Sans Merci and his great odes To Melancholy, To a Nightingale,
To Psyche and To a Grecian Urn, while he also attempted a
second epic poem, Hyperion. In 1819 he met and fell in love with
Fanny Brawn, his neighbour
in Hampstead. In 1819 Keats published his final
book of poetry, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems. C) John Keats was born in Moorfields, London. He attended a Dame
school, later he moved to a school in Enfield in 1803. His father died after a
fall from a horse in 1804, and his
mother died in 1810. D) In 1819 Keats began to show the first signs of tuberculosis, In 1820, he left for Italy. He died in Rome on Feb.
23, 1821. Keats left instructions that
he was to be buried with the letters from Fanny Brawn, together with a lock of
her hair. His headstone was to be engraved with a lyre and with the words ‘Here
lies one whose name was writ in water’. E) Still moving on his epic, Keats visited Margate, then Canterbury, then Bo
Peep near Hastings. In Oxford overlooked the quadrangle of Magdelen College, then moved to Devon, where he completed Endymion, which was
published in May 1818. Endymion was not a success, and attracted hostile
reviews particularly from Blackwoods Magazine. F) Keats was apprenticed to an apothecary, but continued to visit Charles
Clarke, a teacher at the Enfield
school, who encouraged him to broaden his reading. In 1815 he finished his
apprenticeship, and registered at Guy’s Hospital to complete his training, becoming the assistant to a surgeon.
Ode to a Nightingale (fragment)
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