Keats Context
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- Keats Context
- Keats' Childhood
- Born to a lower-middle class family in Moorgate, London on 31st October, 1795. He was the oldest of four children.
- Parents died while he was young
- Dad when he was 8 to a skull fracture when falling off a horse on his way home from visiting Keats at school
- At 15, Keats withdrew from school and began a medical apprenticeship
- Was well-liked in school and his headmaster encouraged his reading and time in his library
- Adulthood and Fanny
- In 1818, Keats moved in with a friend in Hampstead after his brother's death to tuberculosis
- This is where he met Fanny Brawne due to them becoming neighbours.
- Fanny was a higher social class than Keats.
- On 25th December 1818, they announced their engagement
- The two never married due to Keats' financial situation, and Brawne's mother didn't approve of Keats' unstable career choice
- This is where he met Fanny Brawne due to them becoming neighbours.
- Keats abandoned his career as a wound dresser at 20 years old to pursue his dreams of being a poet
- In 1818, Keats moved in with a friend in Hampstead after his brother's death to tuberculosis
- Keats' Tuberculosis
- While his letters to Fanny are often regarded as beautiful, whilst he was ill, they were often rather demanding and frenzied
- Keats had proposed to break off their engagement due to his health, but Fanny refused
- Keats died just months after his move to Italy on 23rd February 1821
- While his letters to Fanny are often regarded as beautiful, whilst he was ill, they were often rather demanding and frenzied
- Keats' Poetry
- Keats explores the theme of abandonment most in 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' due to his relationship with his mother
- Keats admitted he didn't have a 'right feeling towards women' in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey, admitting he often characterised them as either perfect or corrupt ('The Eve of St Agnes' vs 'La Belle')
- Keats valued his idea of 'negative capability', the ability to be uncertain about life's mysteries without being irritable
- (It's ok to not know eg who the villain is in 'Lamia' or what happened to Lamia, whether the knight died in 'La Belle', and what happened to Madeline and Porphyro in 'The Eve of St Agnes'.)
- Keats' Childhood
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