In the family atmosphere at Clarke's, Keats developed an interest in classics and history, which would stay with him throughout his short life.

The phenomenon developed during the Romantic era, when Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, William Hazlitt, and others all described Shakespeare as a transcendent genius.

In reality, Severn launched his own successful artistic career soon after Keats died, becoming a versatile painter in Rome during the 1820s and 1830s.

Sue Brown's recent biography ( 2009 ) uses this new information to provide a reassessment of Severn's character, his friendship with Keats, and his own subsequent artistic and diplomatic career.

He was, as a shipmate recorded, " a departure from our usual type of young officer ", content with his own company though not aloof, " spouting lines from Keats Browning ", a mixture of sensitivity and aggression but, withal, sympathetic.

However, Keats relied on both his own imagination and other literature for sources for his depiction of the nightingale.

* In the 1930s, the American philosopher John Dewey cited Keatsian negative capability as having influenced his own philosophical pragmatism, and said of Keats ' letter that it " contains more of the psychology of productive thought than many treatises ".

The island-dotted Aegean lies at the eastern end of the Mediterranean ; thus when Keats refers to the " western islands " of his own experience, he tacitly contrasts them with the East Indies, the goal that drew adventurers like doughty Cortéz and Balboa to the New World, an example of submerged imagery behind the text, which is typical of Keats ' technique.

My Dog is Lost was Keats & apos ; first attempt at writing his own children & apos ; s book, co-authored with Pat Cherr, in 1960.

After years of illustrating books written by others, Keats found a voice of his own through Peter.

Keats drew on his own experiences growing up, often offering positive outcomes as an antidote to his unhappy childhood.

Keats said, “ I wanted The Snowy Day to be a chunk of life, the sensory experience in word and picture of what it feels like to hear your own body making sounds in the snow.

Although he is best known today for simple portraits of the poets John Keats and John Clare, he was very successful in his lifetime with huge history paintings in the " Grand Manner ", which have so far not benefited at all from the revival of interest in 19th century British Academic art, and are not likely to be on display in the museums that own them.

Nelson said of Keats in a letter to the Duke of Clarence: “ Our friend Keats is quite well in his own person he is equal in my estimation to an additional Seventy-four ; his life is a valuable one to the State, and it is impossible that your Royal Highness could ever have a better choice of a Sea friend, or Counsellor, if you go to the Admiralty .”

His biographies of Keats and Johnson have enjoyed extraordinary reputations both as scholarly resources and as works of literature in their own right.

The Pindarick of Cowley was revived around 1800 by William Wordsworth for one of his very finest poems, the Intimations of Immortality ode ; irregular odes were also written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote odes with regular stanza patterns.

" Literary critic and academic Helen Vendler, in 1988, declared that " in the ode ' To Autumn ,' Keats finds his most comprehensive and adequate symbol for the social value of art.

When it came to vowel forms, Keats incorporated a pattern of alternating historically " short " and " long " vowel sounds in his ode.

Keats found earlier forms of poetry unsatisfactory for his purpose, and the collection represented a new development of the ode form.

Keats wrote to his friend Sarah Jeffrey: " he thing I have most enjoyed this year has been writing an ode to Indolence.

In The Masks of Keats, Thomas McFarland suggests that Keats's beautiful words and images attempt to combine the non-beautiful subject of melancholy with the beauty inherent in the form of the ode.

Beauty and Truth have been argued to be nearly synonymous, as reflected in the statement " Beauty is truth, truth beauty " in the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.

In " Ode " by John Keats, he writes ' Browsed by none but Dian's fawns ' ( line 12 )

A later painting, Keats, at Hampstead, when he first imagined his Ode to a Nightingale ( 1851 ), is also notable.

A similar phenomenon, though not under the same name, occurred during the German Sturm und Drang movement, with such works as The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe or in Romanticism with works such as Ode on Melancholy by John Keats.

* 1820: John Keats completes Ode on Melancholy, one in a series of his famous Odes.

" John Keats, " Ode on a Grecian Urn "

* John Keats, in his Ode on Melancholy, writes:

That is, if you were to rely on what was said of Keats by most established critics ( critics now remembered principally for their injustice to one of the greatest English writers ), you would present the author of ` Ode to a Nightingale ' as a presumptuous ` Cockney poet ' whose works were ` driveling idiocy.

He was fond of poetry, with his favourite poet being John Keats, although his favourite poems were William Wordsworth's " Ode to Duty " and Robert Browning's " A Grammarian's Funeral ".

The forms in modern English verse which reproduce most exactly the impression aimed at by the ancient odestrophe are the elaborate rhymed stanzas of such poems as Keats ' Ode to a Nightingale or Matthew Arnold's The Scholar-Gipsy.

Keats addresses the nightingale as " light-winged Dryad of the trees ", in his Ode to a Nightingale.

John Keats refers to Hippocrene in his poem Ode to a Nightingale.

Keats House, Hampstead, where John Keats | Keats wrote his Ode to a Nightingale

During the spring of 1819, Keats wrote many of his major odes: " Ode on a Grecian Urn ", " Ode on Indolence ", " Ode on Melancholy ", " Ode to a Nightingale ", and " Ode to Psyche ".

A. C. Swinburne placed it with " Ode on a Grecian Urn " as " the nearest to absolute perfection " of Keats's odes ; Aileen Ward declared it " Keats's most perfect and untroubled poem "; and Douglas Bush has stated that the poem is " flawless in structure, texture, tone, and rhythm "; Walter Evert, in 1965, stated that " To Autumn " is " the only perfect poem that Keats ever wrote – and if this should seem to take from him some measure of credit for his extraordinary enrichment of the English poetic tradition, I would quickly add that I am thinking of absolute perfection in whole poems, in which every part is wholly relevant to and consistent in effect with every other part.

" In the same year, Thomas McFarland placed " To Autumn " with " Ode to a Nightingale ", " Ode on a Grecian Urn ", " The Eve of St. Agnes " and Hyperion as Keats's greatest achievement, together elevating Keats " high in the ranks of the supreme makers of world literature ".

" Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written in May 1819 in either the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, or, as according to Keats ' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats House, Hampstead, London.

" Ode to a Nightingale " was probably the first of the middle set of four odes that Keats wrote following " Ode to Psyche " as implied by Brown.

These real-world difficulties may have given Keats pause for thought about a career in poetry, yet he did manage to complete five odes, including " Ode to a Nightingale ", " Ode to Psyche ", " Ode on Melancholy ", " Ode on Indolence ", and " Ode on a Grecian Urn ".

Based on his examination of the stanza forms, Keats biographer Andrew Motion thinks " Ode on Indolence " was written after " Ode to Psyche " and " Ode to a Nightingale ", although he admits there is no way to be precise about the dates.

Tighe's work was appreciated by William Wordsworth and also an early influence on John Keats, whose short Ode to Psyche appeared in 1820.

In the spring of that year, Keats wrote the poem along with " Ode on a Grecian Urn ", " Ode to a Nightingale ", " Ode on Indolence ", and " Ode to Psyche ".

" Ode to Psyche " is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819.

Keats uses the imagination to show the narrator's intent to resurrect Psyche and reincarnate himself into Eros ( love ).

Keats was exposed to a few sources of the Psyche myth.

His contemporary sources for the myth included Lempriere's Classical Dictionary and Mary Tighe's Psyche, an 1805 work that Keats read as a child and returned to in 1818.

Keats wrote to his brother George, just a few months before writing " Ode to Psyche ", to say that he was no longer delighted by Tighe's writing.

After reading the work and realizing that the myth was established during the twilight of Roman mythology, Keats wrote to George: " You must recollect that Psyche was not embodied as a goddess before the time of Apuleius the Platonist who lived after the Augustan age, and consequently the Goddess was never worshipped or sacrificed to with any of the ancient fervour — and perhaps never thought of in the old religion — I am more orthodox than to let a heathen Goddess be so neglected.

Hence we either feel a disappointment about the ' Ode to Psyche ' or else, remembering the care Keats supposedly gave it, we once more put the poem aside for future consideration.

He elaborates further on this when he writes, " The poem Ode to Psyche is unique, and also central, for its art is a natural growth out of nature, based as it is upon a very particular act of consciousness, which Keats arrests in all its concreteness.

" The Ode to Psyche and the Ode on Melancholy in Keats: A Collection of Critical Essays ed Walter Jackson Bate, 91 – 102.