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Scarica John Keats, “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty”. e più Tesine di Maturità in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! English John Keats John Keats was an English Romantic lyric poet whose verse is known for its vivid imagery and great sensuous appeal. His reputation grew after his early death, and he was greatly admired in the Victorian Age. His influence can be seen in the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the Pre-Raphaelites, among others. Childhood John Keats’s father, a livery-stable manager, died when he was eight, and his mother remarried almost immediately. Throughout his life, Keats was close to his sister, Fanny, and his two brothers, George and Tom. After the breakup of their mother’s second marriage, the Keats children lived with their widowed grandmother at Edmonton, Middlesex. Adulthood John Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon in 1811. He broke off the apprenticeship in 1814 and went to London, where he worked as a dresser, or junior house surgeon, at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals. His literary interests had crystallized by this time, and after 1817 he devoted himself entirely to poetry. He died of tuberculosis in Rome in 1821 at the age of 25. W#ks John Keats wrote sonnets, odes, and epics. All his greatest poetry was written in a single year, 1819: “Lamia,”  “The Eve of St. Agnes,” the great  odes  (“On Indolence,”  “On a Grecian Urn,”  “To Psyche,”  “To a Nightingale,”  “On Melancholy,”  and  “To Autumn”), and the two unfinished versions of  an epic on Hyperion.