Keats was driven by an increasingly independent sense of his own artistic potential a burning ambition to measure himself against the greatest English poets:Spenser, Shakespeare,Milton,and Wordsworth
Keats was driven by ❖ an increasingly independent sense of his own artistic potential ❖ a burning ambition to measure himself against the greatest English poets: Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth
The year 1818 was a difficult one for Keats. He was able to take the negative reviews of Endymion in his stride(适应.)，but personal problems began to weigh heavily on him. As the eldest of four children,Keats felt a special responsibility and closeness to his two brothers and his sister
❖ The year 1818 was a difficult one for Keats. ❖ He was able to take the negative reviews of Endymion in his stride(适应.), but personal problems began to weigh heavily on him. ❖ As the eldest of four children, Keats felt a special responsibility and closeness to his two brothers and his sister
Keats worked hard to earn extra money to help his brother George who had emigrated to America,ran into financial difficulties. 石h.化ut
❖ Keats worked hard to earn extra money to help his brother George who had emigrated to America, ran into financial difficulties.
His younger brother Tom contracted tuberculosis, and Keats cared for him constantly,running the risk, as he well knew,of contracting the disease himself
❖ His younger brother Tom contracted tuberculosis, and Keats cared for him constantly, running the risk, as he well knew, of contracting the disease himself
In the autumn of 1818,Keats fell desperately in love with Fanny Brawne they soon engaged an immediate marriage impossible made by Keats's <poor health,poverty,relentless devotion to poetry The year came to a dismal end with Tom's death in December
❖ In the autumn of 1818, Keats fell desperately in love with Fanny Brawne, ❖ they soon engaged ❖ an immediate marriage impossible made by Keats's poor health, poverty, relentless devotion to poetry The year came to a dismal end with Tom's death in December