Context (Edexcel A-Level English Literature): Flashcards
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Keats' birth & death dates
Keats' birth & death dates
Oct 1795 - Feb 1821 (aged 25)
Keats' engagement to Fanny Brawne date
Keats' engagement to Fanny Brawne date
October 1819
When Keats' odes composed (mostly)
When Keats' odes composed (mostly)
March to June 1819
When Keats devoted himself to poetry
When Keats devoted himself to poetry
After 1817
Romanticism time period
Romanticism time period
Late 18th to mid-19th century
Romanticism reaction against
Romanticism reaction against
The Enlightenment/'age of reason'
Keats' term: being in uncertainties w/o seeking fact
Keats' term: being in uncertainties w/o seeking fact
Negative Capability
Keats' metaphor for world (May 1819 letter)
Keats' metaphor for world (May 1819 letter)
The vale of Soul-making
Writers who influenced Keats' style
Writers who influenced Keats' style
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Spenser
Humanism era dates
Humanism era dates
1400 to 1650