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Keats Context
Keat's life
Started school in 1803 and Keats was a troublemaker, known for his prowess in school fights
In April 1804 Keats' father Thomas was thrown from his horse, dying of a skull fracture
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His mother returned in 1809, suffering from tuberculosis. John nursed his mother through her illness, but she died in March 1810.
In 1811 Richard Abbey yanked John from Enfield and apprenticed him to the family doctor, Thomas Hammond
An administrator at the school studied with him at night and introduced him to Renaissance literature
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His training was gruelling, expensive and tiring with a real danger of infection during corpse dissections
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Keats’ tragic life helped his understanding of the human condition, both its suffering and its loss.
Keat's views
His daring and bold style earned him extended criticism from England’s more revered publications, Blackwood's Magazine and the Quarterly Review
Keats felt that his whole life was a quest for transcendent truth; this truth could only be expressed through an intense, imaginative engagement with sensuous beauty. (1817 series of letters)
His most famous doctrine, Negative Capability, is the idea that humans are capable of transcending intellectual or social constraints and exceed what human nature is thought to allow.
Keats was much influenced by the teachings of William Hazlitt who said a great poet: was nothing in himself: but he was all that others were, or that they could become
Keats also felt that Christianity had destroyed the visionary power of myth when it came to interpreting the natural world and man’s relationship to it. As an alternative, he was attracted to the pagan world of the classical past.
Although Keats rejected what he regarded as the constraints of conventional Christianity, he still had recourse to Christian imagery
He refused to submit to what he saw as a false belief.
However, Keats still believed in the immortality of the soul
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Attitudes to women
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Keats does not depict women as either inherently good or evil, but as complex beings.
Keats fell in love with his neighbour Fanny Brawne, and their star-crossed relationship, thwarted by Keats’s death in 1821, inspired many of Keats’s most well-known poems
Keats found himself consumed with thoughts of his beloved and utterly unable to embody the now-legendary notion of “negative capability,”
Keats had a complicated attitude towards women, not viewing them merely as victims, but blamed them for the suffering of males.
Many love letters written to each other “my Love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.Yours forever John Keats”