autumn

beauty

Benjamin Franklin

disappointment

failure

Homer

jealousy

kissing

lawyer

love

mother

negative capability

philosophy

pleasure

poet

poetry

potentiality

preface

proof

proverb

reality

sleep

solitude

suburbia

William Shakespeare

William Wordsworth

nationality

British

occupation / innovator as

Lake Poet

physician writer

physician

intellectual movement

Romanticism

religion

Anglicanism

cause of death

natural causes

is a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.

is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (John Keats)

 changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and position in intercourse.

The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and position in intercourse.

is the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.

is a poet that makes one feel like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his view.

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told / That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne; / Yet never did I breathe its pure serene / Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: / Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken.

Christopher Ricks's sympathetically generous reading points to the strength of the final couplet and argues that kissing is a kind of rhyming and vice-versa.

Love is my religion — I could die for it.

is one we have have so much of in our heart.

is the ability to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubt, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

John Keats called this romantic impulse 'negative capability.' He said that certain poets, like Shakespeare, had 'the ability to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.' Keats realized that just because something can't be solved, or reduced into the laws of physics, doesn't mean it isn't real. When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

is notable for the fact that it affirms nothing. It merely depicts things in their maximum complexity using all the tools that language, raised to its highest level, allows.

Poetry: it nothing affirmeth it merely depicts things in their maximum complexity using all the tools that language, raised to its highest level, allows. Keats

either comes as naturally as the leaves to a tree or it better not come at all.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

The thought, the deadly feel, of solitude.

is a man who led a life of allegory; his works are the comments on it.

is a writer who has left nothing to say about nothing or any thing.

is enormously posessed of Negative Capability, a capability of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

is a man who left a bad impression wherever he visited in town by his egotism, vanity and bigotry.

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John Keats