Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Bryan Waller Procter
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Marghanita Laski | ML
contributed an essay on Keats
, The Language of the Nightingale Ode, to R. M. Wilson
's Essays and Studies 1966, the nineteenth volume in the English Association
's Essays and Studies... |
| death | Amy Levy | The following year the novelist Grant Allen
, an opponent of higher education for women, attributed her suicide directly to her time at university. Beckman considers many possible reasons—a broken love-affair, her lesbianism, her deafness... |
| death | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The facts about Shelley's death were at first confused, and it was the kind of event that lends itself to mythologizing. The boat, the Don Juan, was badly designed for strong winds and was being... |
| Education | Freya Stark | Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare
, Sir Walter Scott
, Byron
, Keats
, Kipling
, Shelley
, Wordsworth |
| Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
| Education | Rose Tremain | At this stage of her life, Rosie's great interest and talent was not writing but painting, like her sister. She set out to make a huge, hanging, illustrated copy of Keats
's Ode to Autumn... |
| Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
| Education | Marie Corelli | Looking back on her early education, MC
wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively... |
| Education | Maggie Gee | MG
gives a very funny account of being interviewed for a place at Cambridge
by Queenie Leavis
, whose name she did not recognise, and talking confidently about Keats
in ignorance of the way F. R. Leavis |
| Education | Christina Rossetti | Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother
, in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their... |
| Education | Elizabeth Jennings | EJ
attended Oxford High School
. It was while a thirteen-year-old pupil there, she later said, that she discovered the excitement of poetry: first The Battle of Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton
, then The... |
| Education | Ruth Padel | She found school work (at Byron House school in Highgate and then at the highly academic North London Collegiate
) difficult. She always got an A for English essays, although she would write a short... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's father, Bryan Waller Procter
, was a successful London barrister. As Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy (from 1832 to 1861) |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Sexton | Anne was not able to care consistently for Linda during her early years, and had her looked after for long periods by her mother and her mother-in-law. However, mother and daughter developed an extremely close... |
Timeline
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.
5 May 1816
John Keats
appeared (anonymously) in print with a sonnet entitled O Solitude in Leigh Hunt
's Examiner.
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.
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
.
By April 1818
John Keats
published Endymion: A Poetic Romance.
July 1819
John Keats
's Ode to a Nightingale, written in May, appeared in a journal called Annals of the Fine Arts.
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.
19 September 1819
Keats
, walking in the fields near Winchester, composed his Ode to Autumn.
January 1820
John Keats
published in Annals of the Fine Arts his Ode on a Grecian Urn, written the previous year.
Early July 1820
Keats
published Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and other Poems.
1927
Halcyon Press
was founded by A. A. M. Stols
.
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.
12 April 1934
US novelistF. Scott Fitzgerald
published Tender is the Night (titled with words from Keats
's Ode to a Nightingale).
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ , 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, and Harry Buxton Forman. The Poetical Works of John Keats. Oxford University Press, 1921.