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Essay Archive - THe Life and Work of John Keats
THe Life and Work of John Keats
John Keats was one of the last, great poets of the Romantic Era.
He wrote poetry of great sensual beauty and with a unique passion for
details. In his lifetime he was not associated with the senior poets who
began the movement at the time of the French Revolution. He was unlucky in
the respect he didn't, fit into the older, respected group based on his age,
nor in the younger group, for he was neither a lord nor in the upper
classes. He was one of the “middle class” poets of the then emerging
middle class to gain the attention of a public, which was then very
snobbish about ....
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