John Keats

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Standard Name: Keats, John
Painting of John Keats by William Hilton after Joseph Severn. Keats is seated with an open book in front of him, his chin on his hand, gazing into the distance. National Portrait Gallery.
Bronze statue of John Keats, sitting on a bench with a book under his hands, turning his head as if he were listening. Guys Hospital, London.

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Travel Ethel Wilson
The Wilsons travelled again to Europe in the summer of 1938. Upon arriving in London on 5 July 1938 EW was particularly excited to see her half-aunts the Bryant sisters again. By this time it...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Augusta Ward
Perhaps the most interesting is her review (March 1884) of Harry Buxton Forman 's recent edition of Keats . Ward argues that the letters to Fanny Brawne ought not to have been made public. (She...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Ogilvy
The End of 1854 exemplifies EO 's political awareness ('Twas a soldier year / We are burying here),
Ogilvy, Eliza. Poems of Ten Years. Thomas Bosworth, 1856.
301
but her sense of politics is rooted in history. Many of these poems relate...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC wrote a preface for this book, which includes accounts of Keats , Charles and Mary Lamb , Douglas Jerrold , and Dickens .
Textual Production Anna Mary Howitt
She chose epigraphs to chapter one from Keats and James Shirley , to chapters three and fourteen from Mary Howitt , and elsewhere from Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Percy Bysshe Shelley , and writers in French, German, and Italian.
Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
MAW planned her next novel as a much weightier study of the intellectual impact of historical thought on conventional faith; it was deeply influenced by the intellectual milieu of Oxford and the histories of her...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934.
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Her...
Textual Production Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS published in New YorkThe Happy Tree, a novel which appeared next year in London as The Treasures of the Snow.
The original title refers to the tree in Keats 's Stanzas...
Textual Production James Tiptree Jr.
The words come from Keats 's La Belle Dame Sans Merci, whose speaker finds his non-human lover has unfitted him for normal human interactions. Xenophilia was a favourite preoccupation of Sheldon/Tiptree. This story appeared...
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
The title (shamelessly re-used by verse anthologists working after EF ) is a quotation from Keats 's Ode to a Nightingale, where the magic windows open on the foam / Of perilous seas, in...
Textual Production Barbara Pym
BP published the last novel of her lifetime, The Sweet Dove Died.
The title implies, in a manner both sentimental and canonical, death in captivity. (In this it hearkens back to the title of...
Textual Production Freya Stark
The title echoes a phrase from Keats 's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer.
Textual Production Winifred Peck
WP published a novel, Veiled Destinies, titled from a phrase in Shelley 's Adonais (his lament for the death of Keats ).
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2410 (10 April 1948): 201
Textual Production Margaret Drabble
Again the title names an imaginary place: it is the phrase which Keats applies to the territory of poetry in Upon First Looking into Chapman's Homer. It also suggests the heroine's work as an...
Textual Production Alice Meynell
AM wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie 's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning (1903),...

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10 April 1815: The largest volcanic eruption in modern times,...

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10 April 1815

The largest volcanic eruption in modern times, that of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, buried an entire civilization. It had twice the magnitude of the later Krakatoa eruption.
Sample, Ian. “Scientists find lost civilisation”. Guardian Unlimited, 1 Mar. 2006.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Awfully Present”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 3, 5 Feb. 2015, pp. 27-8.
27

5 May 1816: John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print...

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5 May 1816

John Keats appeared (anonymously) in print with a sonnet entitled O Solitude in Leigh Hunt 's Examiner.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press, 1954.
279
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
5 May 2011

3 March 1817: The twenty-one-year-old John Keats issued...

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3 March 1817

The twenty-one-year-old John Keats issued his first publication in book form, modestly entitled Poems, containing almost all the poetry he is known to have written by then.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

28 December 1817: The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later...

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28 December 1817

The painter Benjamin Haydon held what later became known as the immortal dinner so that the young John Keats might meet the eminent William Wordsworth .
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
288-93

By April 1818: John Keats published Endymion: A Poetic ...

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By April 1818

John Keats published Endymion: A Poetic Romance.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
19 (1818): 204
McLean, Thomas. “Off-Stage Dramas: Jane Porter, Edmund Kean, and the Tragedy of SwitzerlandKeats-Shelley Review, Vol.
25
, No. 2, Maney Publishing, Sept. 2011, pp. 147-59.
153-4

July 1819: John Keats's Ode to a Nightingale, written...

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July 1819

John Keats 's Ode to a Nightingale, written in May, appeared in a journal called Annals of the Fine Arts.
Keats, John. Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends. Editor Colvin, Sir Sidney, Macmillan, 1891.
272 n2

13 September 1819: Henry Hunt (organiser of the meeting at Manchester...

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13 September 1819

Henry Hunt (organiser of the meeting at Manchester which became the Peterloo Massacre) was welcomed by huge crowds on his arrival in London to stand trial.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
427-8

19 September 1819: Keats, walking in the fields near Winchester,...

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19 September 1819

Keats , walking in the fields near Winchester, composed his Ode to Autumn.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
426
Keats, John. Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends. Editor Colvin, Sir Sidney, Macmillan, 1891.
320 and n1

January 1820: John Keats published in Annals of the Fine...

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January 1820

John Keats published in Annals of the Fine Arts his Ode on a Grecian Urn, written the previous year.
Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. ix - lxxxii.
lxxxli

Early July 1820: Keats published Lamia, Isabella, The Eve...

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Early July 1820

Keats published Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and other Poems.
Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. ix - lxxxii.
lxxxli

1927: Halcyon Press was founded by A. A. M. St...

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1927

Halcyon Press was founded by A. A. M. Stols .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
179

February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...

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February 1930

D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, which includes bad poetry by John Dryden , John Keats , and Elizabeth Barrett Browning along with other canonical figures.
Byatt, A. S. Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction. Editor Bell, Hazel K., University of Toronto, 2001.
110
Lewis, D. B. Wyndham et al. The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse. 2nd edition, Capricorn, 1962.

12 April 1934: US novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald published...

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12 April 1934

US novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald published Tender is the Night (titled with words from Keats 's Ode to a Nightingale).
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
12 April 2013

Texts

Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, 1921, p. ix - lxxxii.
Keats, John. Letters of John Keats to his Family and Friends. Editor Colvin, Sir Sidney, Macmillan, 1891.
Keats, John. The Poetical Works and other Writings of John Keats. Editor Forman, Harry Buxton, Reeves and Turner, 1883, 4 vols.
Keats, John, and Harry Buxton Forman. The Poetical Works of John Keats. Oxford University Press, 1921.