Smith received international acclaim for the collection The Star-Treader was received very favorably by American critics, one of whom named Smith " the Keats of the Pacific ".

A biography of Carangi by Stephen Fried called Thing of Beauty ( the title of John Keats ' famous poem ) was published in 1993.

Joseph Severn ( 7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879 ) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats.

In 1815 he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in London and exhibited his first work in oil, Hermia and Helena, a subject from A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with a portrait miniature, " J. Keats, Esq ", in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819.

As he reported to John Taylor two weeks afterwards, " Each day he would look up in the doctors face to discover how long he should live -- he would say -- " how long will this posthumous life of mine last " -- that look was more than we could ever bear — the extreme brightness of his eyes — with his poor pallid face — were not earthly --" Severn's ordeal was recognized by Keats himself, who, a month before his death, said, " Severn I can see under your quiet look -- immense twisting and contending -- you dont know what you are reading -- you are induring for me more than I'd have you -- O!

that my last hour was come --" He was later thanked for his devotion by the poet Percy B. Shelley in the preface to his elegy, Adonais, which was written for Keats in 1821.

Until recently, it was believed that Severn's life culminated in his association with Keats and that he lived on this fame for the rest of his long life.

Severn died on 3 August 1879 at the age of 85, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery alongside John Keats.

John Keats (; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821 ) was an English Romantic poet.

Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.

John Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on 31 October 1795, to Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats.

Keats believed that he was born at the inn, a birthplace of humble origins, but there is no evidence to support his belief.

In April 1804, when Keats was eight, his father died.

In March 1810, when Keats was 14, his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving the children in the custody of their grandmother.

That autumn, Keats left Clarke's school to apprentice with Thomas Hammond, a surgeon and apothecary who was a neighbour and the doctor of the Jennings family.

In 1816, Keats received his apothecary's licence, which made him eligible to practise as an apothecary, physician, and surgeon, but before the end of the year he announced to his guardian that he was resolved to be a poet, not a surgeon.

This was followed in more recent centuries by other poets ( e. g. Keats and Alfred Edward Housman ) and painters ( Caravaggio, Poussin, Turner, Dalí, and Waterhouse ).

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.

It was in Winchester that Keats wrote " Isabella ", " St. Agnes ' Eve ", " To Autumn " and " Lamia ".

Holst's ' retirement ' was immediately productive, with the First Choral Symphony to words by Keats ( a Second Choral Symphony to words by George Meredith exists only in fragments ).

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.

Keats was also exposed to the Townley, Borghese, and Holland House vases and to the classical treatment of subjects in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.

After Keats, there have been comparatively few major odes in English.

The pub is now called " The John Keats at Moorgate ", having previously been known as " The Moorgate Coffee House " and " The Moorgate ", only a few yards from Moorgate station.

After only a few months however Keats hoisted his flag in and took command of naval forces off Cadiz.

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.

Later sources, among them Ovid, Hyginus, and the Bibliotheca ( but especially English romantic poets like Keats ) write that although she was tongueless, Philomela was turned into a nightingale, and Procne into a swallow.

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

He often offers quotes from a variety of literary sources, including Shakespeare and Keats.

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.

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 ".

" 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 ".

Keats developed his own type of ode in " Ode to Psyche ", which preceded " Ode on a Grecian Urn " and other odes he had written in 1819.

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 ).

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.