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    The Eve of St. Agnes
    The Eve of St. Agnes
    The Eve of St. Agnes
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    The Eve of St. Agnes

    By John Keats

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    John Keats was an English Romantic poet.  Keats was a peer of other great poets such as Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley and his poems have become more popular after his death.  This edition of The Eve of St. Agnes includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531284190
    The Eve of St. Agnes
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    John Keats

    John Keats was born in London in 1795. He and his siblings were orphaned at a young age - his father died in a riding accident in 1804 and his mother died six years later. Keats then left Enfield school to train as an apothecary and a surgeon but he was to leave his profession to dedicate his time to poetry. His first volume, Poems, was published in 1817 and only two more volumes, in 1818 and 1820, were published during his lifetime. In 1818 he fell in love with his neighbour Fanny Brawne, but he broke off their engagement due to his increasing ill health and lack of funds. In 1820 he moved to Italy where he died a year later of tuberculosis, the disease that claimed his mother and his brother Tom.

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      The Eve of St. Agnes - John Keats

      THE EVE OF ST. AGNES

      ..................

      John Keats

      KYPROS PRESS

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      Copyright © 2016 by John Keats

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Eve of St. Agnes

      Introduction.

      The Eve of St. Agnes.

      Notes on The Eve of St. Agnes.

      THE EVE OF ST. AGNES

      ..................

      INTRODUCTION.

      In Lamia and Hyperion, as in Endymion, we find Keats inspired by classic story, though the inspiration in each case came to him through Elizabethan writers. Here, on the other hand, mediaeval legend is his inspiration; the ‘faery broods’ have driven ‘nymph and satyr from the prosperous woods’. Akin to the Greeks as he was in spirit, in his instinctive personification of the lovely manifestations of nature, his style and method were really more naturally suited to the portrayal of mediaeval scenes, where he found the richness and warmth of colour in which his soul delighted.

      The Eve of St. Agnes, founded on a popular mediaeval legend, not being a tragedy like Isabella, cannot be expected

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