Yesterday, I discussed about death. Today, in Keats's Ode to the Nightingale, he talked life's intolerable and his half in love with easful Death like a draught of wine and fall a sleep and ceased forever. An other way of coping with life's intolerably is using imagination to escape from life's hardship. However, in his last conclusion in this poem, his imaginative power only can help him escape from life temporarily.
I had thought of easful death like the handling of uncured animals by injection to put them down in a humanistic way. There is no argument in managing comfortable dying for animals by lots of argument in managing human's comfortable death. If you are rich enough, you can arrange your death as comfortable as you wish to avoid suffering dying in Swissland where it has law to legalize this kind of death but not as easy as you live in most of the countries that do not legalize arranging death.
In traditional value in Confucius teaching, it emphasis how to arrange parents' funeral in a proper way to show respectful to the ancestors. They do not think of how to die respectfully. To die by arrangement is an issue in modern society which medical advance makes life last longer than they should be naturally and that makes the life for the illness person unbearable.
If we can help the dogs and cats cease in a humanistic way, it is much more a moral issue to help the uncured person to die comfortablly and respectfully as he or she wishes and arranges. And that is my wish for my death too if I come into this stage.
After sharing my view of how to die, Ode to the Nightingale also makes me think of how to cope with suffering in life. Keats' talked about using a draught of wine to make you forget the pain of life but he used his own imagination to avoid life's despair and misable. However, he did know that it would not take you away from life's reality. You still have to face your daily life. Even though it is true that we cannot quit from life by imagination, we can choose the picture of our inner world. When we come to a situation like terminal illness or situation that we cannot control our suffering, one thing we still can control is to creat our inner mind. It is not fantasy or ways to fool yourselves. It is a way to heal and a way of empowerment yourself. You choose to think something good, something that much appeal to yourself that you know that it is your imagination and it is not true but it is good. That is what Keats talking about the Truth of the Imagination.
It is a defference between mental illness and the power of imagination. In mental illness, patient creat an illusion that they do not aware and think it is the reality to help them to cope with life's stress. What I think of the power of imagination is the mental power that you choose to focus your mind in something that is favourable and good for you. The person who use this power know that it is his imagination not the reality but refer to his inner world, it is true and it is his own reality he choose. I think, we can creat this ability or power in our daily life if we cultivate our intelligence in literature and art, we can create and stay more in a beautiful inner world which can be true. That is like what Keats said in his Ode on the Grecian Urn: Beauty is truth, true beauty.
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
To Autumn
After a long time stop writing, today is 26 Feb 2013, I started to write again.
Today, I read the SparkNotes on Keats's Ode, To Autumn, it is a very good analysis: simple and precise.
What did John Keats think about To Autumn when he writing this Ode?
In his letter to his friends, Reynold, talking about his feeling of this season, Autumn, he experienced. At that time, he was in lots of troubles: no money, no hope of earning any money from his literacy power, no hope to marry Fanny. He even did not dare to go back to Wentworth Place to see Fanny. He even suffered from the disease that killed his brother and he knew that he might soon be died too. He was desperately no hope for the future. However, when he went for a walk under the golden season of Autumn. The Nature gave him rich colour, fruits smell, all harvest --Time to celebrate for the whole year's effort and to prepare for the coming of Winter. He suddenly forgot his own troubles and absorbed in the fruitfulness of this Season and wrote To Autumn. And the poem shown that he was more in peace, accepting all come to him as the cycle of the Nature.
When I read To Autumn, it led me thought of the death people face when they are at the life stage of elderly. Like me, getting older, awaring of more and more wrinkles on my face, death seems closer and closer. What we think of death?
The Christian belief consider Death is a punishment of Sin. By believing in Jesus, through his redemption, we have elternal life. Death seems the end of this earthly life and the start of the elternal life if you believe so.
In the traditional Chinese philosophy, I mean the teaching of Confucius, they do not think of death that much cause they do not provide any wisdom on death, they consider how to live properly much more important about any thing happen after death. That is why they have so many teaching about how to handle the funeral properly which is for the living people but not for the dead. They ignor death cause it is nothing when thinking about life.
The teaching of Zhuangzi has something taught about death-- Death is just a natural phenomena. Life and Death is just a cycle of the Nature. So life comes and goes. It is the natural law. As it is natural, we do not need to love life and hate death. We can only accept this natural phenomena and follow the Law. From the human's perspective, we get used to those people and lives around us and we do not want to leave them. However, when we stand out above the human's feeling and take the experience of the natural environment. We knows there is time of life and there is time of death. And John Keats's To Autumn is much similiar to Zhuangzi's teaching which I apppreciated and is much more closer to my understanding and feeling.
After come back from Hong Kong, I started reading Zhuangzi and Confucicus and thinking of their teaching. I tried to integrate all I read.
Today, I read the SparkNotes on Keats's Ode, To Autumn, it is a very good analysis: simple and precise.
What did John Keats think about To Autumn when he writing this Ode?
In his letter to his friends, Reynold, talking about his feeling of this season, Autumn, he experienced. At that time, he was in lots of troubles: no money, no hope of earning any money from his literacy power, no hope to marry Fanny. He even did not dare to go back to Wentworth Place to see Fanny. He even suffered from the disease that killed his brother and he knew that he might soon be died too. He was desperately no hope for the future. However, when he went for a walk under the golden season of Autumn. The Nature gave him rich colour, fruits smell, all harvest --Time to celebrate for the whole year's effort and to prepare for the coming of Winter. He suddenly forgot his own troubles and absorbed in the fruitfulness of this Season and wrote To Autumn. And the poem shown that he was more in peace, accepting all come to him as the cycle of the Nature.
When I read To Autumn, it led me thought of the death people face when they are at the life stage of elderly. Like me, getting older, awaring of more and more wrinkles on my face, death seems closer and closer. What we think of death?
The Christian belief consider Death is a punishment of Sin. By believing in Jesus, through his redemption, we have elternal life. Death seems the end of this earthly life and the start of the elternal life if you believe so.
In the traditional Chinese philosophy, I mean the teaching of Confucius, they do not think of death that much cause they do not provide any wisdom on death, they consider how to live properly much more important about any thing happen after death. That is why they have so many teaching about how to handle the funeral properly which is for the living people but not for the dead. They ignor death cause it is nothing when thinking about life.
The teaching of Zhuangzi has something taught about death-- Death is just a natural phenomena. Life and Death is just a cycle of the Nature. So life comes and goes. It is the natural law. As it is natural, we do not need to love life and hate death. We can only accept this natural phenomena and follow the Law. From the human's perspective, we get used to those people and lives around us and we do not want to leave them. However, when we stand out above the human's feeling and take the experience of the natural environment. We knows there is time of life and there is time of death. And John Keats's To Autumn is much similiar to Zhuangzi's teaching which I apppreciated and is much more closer to my understanding and feeling.
After come back from Hong Kong, I started reading Zhuangzi and Confucicus and thinking of their teaching. I tried to integrate all I read.
Monday, 21 May 2012
The voice I hear
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
from Ode to a Nightingale
It was amazing that when I visited John Keats House on 20 April, I heard the birds sang loud and clear on the trees behind the House. I immediately thought of this Ode. It was already past almost 200 years and more since John Keats lived here and wrote this Ode. The world had been changed so much! And the birds still sing here that is just wonderful.
I walked on the heath that John Keats had walked before. The trees are here as well as the ponds. It is quiet and peaceful as like 200 years ago. I walked on the Well Walk too.
When I am getting older, I find things are changing!! Even the earth and the mother Nature are changing too. May be what is not change is Change itself. So this moment is valuable because there will not be the same moment again. Fom this point of view, we all will pass into history. But when reading John Keats, I connect to his present moment. Just like reading the Ode to the Nightingale, I felt the feeling of John Keats and shared his thought. That made John Keats became my friend, a very close friend for me cause I can read into his heart when I read his poetry and his letters. And I can share my feeling and thoughts here related to him. I feel so good to know him and become a friend of John Keats.
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
from Ode to a Nightingale
It was amazing that when I visited John Keats House on 20 April, I heard the birds sang loud and clear on the trees behind the House. I immediately thought of this Ode. It was already past almost 200 years and more since John Keats lived here and wrote this Ode. The world had been changed so much! And the birds still sing here that is just wonderful.
I walked on the heath that John Keats had walked before. The trees are here as well as the ponds. It is quiet and peaceful as like 200 years ago. I walked on the Well Walk too.
When I am getting older, I find things are changing!! Even the earth and the mother Nature are changing too. May be what is not change is Change itself. So this moment is valuable because there will not be the same moment again. Fom this point of view, we all will pass into history. But when reading John Keats, I connect to his present moment. Just like reading the Ode to the Nightingale, I felt the feeling of John Keats and shared his thought. That made John Keats became my friend, a very close friend for me cause I can read into his heart when I read his poetry and his letters. And I can share my feeling and thoughts here related to him. I feel so good to know him and become a friend of John Keats.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
As when, upon a tranced summer night,
As when, upon a tranced summer night,
Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,
Save from one gradual solitary gust
Which come upon the silence, and dies off,
As if the ebbing air had but one wave;
Hyperion Book 1 line 72-77
I like these few lines which gives me a very serene atmosphere of a very dark and quiet night under huge tall trees in a deep forest. I like John Keats's poetry for it can lead me deep into the nature with solitude and a simple existance and content. I like the way he described the air, the sound, and the stillness.
Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir,
Save from one gradual solitary gust
Which come upon the silence, and dies off,
As if the ebbing air had but one wave;
Hyperion Book 1 line 72-77
I like these few lines which gives me a very serene atmosphere of a very dark and quiet night under huge tall trees in a deep forest. I like John Keats's poetry for it can lead me deep into the nature with solitude and a simple existance and content. I like the way he described the air, the sound, and the stillness.
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
What was your dream?
"What was your dream? Tell it me and I will tell you the interpretation thereof."
Letter to Fanny Brawne on 8 July 1819
Is John Keats the first one, ahead than Sigmund Freud to talk about the Interpretation of Dreams?
John Keats use the word-'dream' a lot in his letters:
" (talking about Mr Brown's coming back)--it broke in upon me like a Thunderbolt-I had got in a dream among my Books--really luxuriating in a solitude and silence you alone should have disturb'd--"
letter to Fanny Brawne on 6 August 1819
" My sweet Fanny,
On awakening from my three days dream ( 'I cry to dream again" ) I found one and another astonish'd at my idleness and thoughtlessness---"
Letter to Fanny Brawne on 19 October 1819
Dream is a very fascinating matter in our life and John Keats mentioned it a lot. Either he dream about something or used it as a way to tell about his ideas in poetry or as a metaphor to express his feeling and thought. Later in my blog, I would like to talk more about these. Now I would like to share about my dream.
I found these few months, I had some special dreams which were quite different from what I usually have. I remembered one which was about three weeks ago, the dream was like a movie totally out of my life context. In the dream, I was completely an other person, not the I. And I could finish my dream and then awake and remembered what my dream was and had the feeling and the idea that this was absolutely a new kind to dream to me. It was very interesting!
Then last Saturday, I had an other dream which I found it can be put into a plot of a movie about the friendship of two women from their teenage to their middle age.
What was your dream? Do you interprete your dream? I will share my dream tomorrow and then talk about my interpretation.
Letter to Fanny Brawne on 8 July 1819
Is John Keats the first one, ahead than Sigmund Freud to talk about the Interpretation of Dreams?
John Keats use the word-'dream' a lot in his letters:
" (talking about Mr Brown's coming back)--it broke in upon me like a Thunderbolt-I had got in a dream among my Books--really luxuriating in a solitude and silence you alone should have disturb'd--"
letter to Fanny Brawne on 6 August 1819
" My sweet Fanny,
On awakening from my three days dream ( 'I cry to dream again" ) I found one and another astonish'd at my idleness and thoughtlessness---"
Letter to Fanny Brawne on 19 October 1819
Dream is a very fascinating matter in our life and John Keats mentioned it a lot. Either he dream about something or used it as a way to tell about his ideas in poetry or as a metaphor to express his feeling and thought. Later in my blog, I would like to talk more about these. Now I would like to share about my dream.
I found these few months, I had some special dreams which were quite different from what I usually have. I remembered one which was about three weeks ago, the dream was like a movie totally out of my life context. In the dream, I was completely an other person, not the I. And I could finish my dream and then awake and remembered what my dream was and had the feeling and the idea that this was absolutely a new kind to dream to me. It was very interesting!
Then last Saturday, I had an other dream which I found it can be put into a plot of a movie about the friendship of two women from their teenage to their middle age.
What was your dream? Do you interprete your dream? I will share my dream tomorrow and then talk about my interpretation.
Friday, 17 February 2012
The sensuous luxury of Romance vs The bitter-sweet of Tragedy
Sonnet on Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
O golden tongued Romance, with serene lute!
Fair plumed Syren, Queen of far-away!
Leave melodising on this wintry day,
Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute:
Adieu! for, once again, the fierce dispute
Bwtwixt damnation and impassion'd clay
Must I burn through; once more humbly assay
The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit:
Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion,
Begetters of our deep eternal theme!
When through the old oak forest I am gone,
Let me not wander in a barren dream,
But, when I am consumed in the fire,
Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.
This is the sonnet Keats's critics used to tell the two stages of his Poetry: from sensuous luxury Romance to the realistic bitter-sweet of Tragedy like Shakespeare's King Lear.
Regarding to the change of Keats's poetry mentioned above and the Shakespearen Keats we talked about yesterday, I would like to keep quoting Beth Lau's essay here cause it gave me so much ideas and understanding on Keats poetry and its relation with Shakespeare.
Beth said, ' the conflict (the fierce dispute) Keats describes in this sonnet between "Romance" or a literature of sensuous luxury, remote from familiar existence, characterized as an exotic, deceptive women ( golden-tounged Romance, with serene lute!/Fair plumed syren, queen of far-away!), and a literature that confronts the harsh facts of life and exhibits traditionally masculine qualities of judgement and self-determination( Let me not wander in a barren dream....Give me new phoenix wings to fly at my desire!) was central to Keats's career.'
' In fact, Keats's career is often described as an evolution from Romance or " the realm...Of Flora, and old Pan" to a more tragic or realistic mode that accepts "the agonies, the strife/Of human hearts" as Keats Characterized the two types and stages of poetry in ' Sleep and Poetry'(101-2,124-5)
Beth comment that Shakespeare play that itself is structured around similiar conflicts between a feminine world of luxury and emotion and a masculine world of stoicism, duty and reason, however, is not King Lear but Antony and Cleopatra. Beth continued to pointed out that this play which had so much Keats's study on the margin and so much similiar conflicts:romance and reality, or masculine and feminine attributes, even in Keats's letter, Keats mentioned the same conflict in his own treatment as 'Sensations and Thought', that show its significient influence on him.
Beth then pointed out that when Keats fell deeply in love for the first time with Fanny Brawne, his conflicts between love and ambition, romance and reality took on new urgency. And his conflicting feeling towards women hampered him more. In one way he had anxieties about his attractiveness to the opposite sex for his short stature. On the other hand, he distrust women just as in his letters to Fanny, he was haunted by the fear of her being a little inclined to the Cressid. More, it is clear experssion of jealousy, possessiveness and doubts about her love to him. At other times, he declears his absolute devotion to her. And then he regarded his love for her as a threat to his poetic ambitions.
Keats's true feeling of love and the conflicts it raised exactly like the Shakespeare play-Antony and Cleopatra. Beth pointed out that in the play, Keats would have found strikingly similiar conflicts between a realm of love, sensuality and abandoment to another, represented by Cleopatra's Egypt, and the Roman world of duty, self-discipline and masculine reputation and power in the public realm, presided over by Octavius Caesar. And also both of them had doubts of loyalty to the other.
Beth's essay still has more analysis and disclose of the characterstics of Keats's poetry and the influence and relation with his presider, Shakespeare's work. But now is enough. I found it was very interesting to read her essay. It gave me so more ideas and insight about Keats and his work. I enjoy reading a good book. It gives me so much pleasure of knowing.
'
O golden tongued Romance, with serene lute!
Fair plumed Syren, Queen of far-away!
Leave melodising on this wintry day,
Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute:
Adieu! for, once again, the fierce dispute
Bwtwixt damnation and impassion'd clay
Must I burn through; once more humbly assay
The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit:
Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion,
Begetters of our deep eternal theme!
When through the old oak forest I am gone,
Let me not wander in a barren dream,
But, when I am consumed in the fire,
Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.
This is the sonnet Keats's critics used to tell the two stages of his Poetry: from sensuous luxury Romance to the realistic bitter-sweet of Tragedy like Shakespeare's King Lear.
Regarding to the change of Keats's poetry mentioned above and the Shakespearen Keats we talked about yesterday, I would like to keep quoting Beth Lau's essay here cause it gave me so much ideas and understanding on Keats poetry and its relation with Shakespeare.
Beth said, ' the conflict (the fierce dispute) Keats describes in this sonnet between "Romance" or a literature of sensuous luxury, remote from familiar existence, characterized as an exotic, deceptive women ( golden-tounged Romance, with serene lute!/Fair plumed syren, queen of far-away!), and a literature that confronts the harsh facts of life and exhibits traditionally masculine qualities of judgement and self-determination( Let me not wander in a barren dream....Give me new phoenix wings to fly at my desire!) was central to Keats's career.'
' In fact, Keats's career is often described as an evolution from Romance or " the realm...Of Flora, and old Pan" to a more tragic or realistic mode that accepts "the agonies, the strife/Of human hearts" as Keats Characterized the two types and stages of poetry in ' Sleep and Poetry'(101-2,124-5)
Beth comment that Shakespeare play that itself is structured around similiar conflicts between a feminine world of luxury and emotion and a masculine world of stoicism, duty and reason, however, is not King Lear but Antony and Cleopatra. Beth continued to pointed out that this play which had so much Keats's study on the margin and so much similiar conflicts:romance and reality, or masculine and feminine attributes, even in Keats's letter, Keats mentioned the same conflict in his own treatment as 'Sensations and Thought', that show its significient influence on him.
Beth then pointed out that when Keats fell deeply in love for the first time with Fanny Brawne, his conflicts between love and ambition, romance and reality took on new urgency. And his conflicting feeling towards women hampered him more. In one way he had anxieties about his attractiveness to the opposite sex for his short stature. On the other hand, he distrust women just as in his letters to Fanny, he was haunted by the fear of her being a little inclined to the Cressid. More, it is clear experssion of jealousy, possessiveness and doubts about her love to him. At other times, he declears his absolute devotion to her. And then he regarded his love for her as a threat to his poetic ambitions.
Keats's true feeling of love and the conflicts it raised exactly like the Shakespeare play-Antony and Cleopatra. Beth pointed out that in the play, Keats would have found strikingly similiar conflicts between a realm of love, sensuality and abandoment to another, represented by Cleopatra's Egypt, and the Roman world of duty, self-discipline and masculine reputation and power in the public realm, presided over by Octavius Caesar. And also both of them had doubts of loyalty to the other.
Beth's essay still has more analysis and disclose of the characterstics of Keats's poetry and the influence and relation with his presider, Shakespeare's work. But now is enough. I found it was very interesting to read her essay. It gave me so more ideas and insight about Keats and his work. I enjoy reading a good book. It gives me so much pleasure of knowing.
'
Thursday, 16 February 2012
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
A Thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness;
Endymion Book 1 line 1-3
In John Keats poetry, we always easy to find fine phases and beautiful imagery. There are over 4000 lines in Endymion which I hardly go through all from Book 1 to Book 4. In my experience, it bore me to continue reading it cause it is too much luxurious description of the scenery. However, if I randomly pick up a few lines and read them slowly and more focus, in stead of boring, I find the description is beautiful and vivid, and my enjoyment increase. The imagery can keep in my mind for my meditation after. John Keats beautiful verses seem sprinkling inside his poetry and stimulate your appreciation for his art.
Then I read this book: Great Shakespearens-Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats Vol 4 today and I understood the style and the characteristics of his poetry. Beth Lau, a professor of English at California State University, who wrote the part on Keats, gave me a very good explanation of my experience.
'From Keats's letters, marginalia and poems reveal a number of significant patterns in his response to Shakespeare. On such pattern is his tendency to focus on discrete, isolated passages, often with little regard for the larger context. ' Beth Lau commented. She also quoted John Keats letter to Reynolds to show John Keats focused on particular beautiful imagery and fine phases in Shakespeare's work as:
'I neer found so many beautis in the sonnets - they seem to be full of fine things said unintentionally - in the intensity of working out conceits.....' Keats letter continues, 'He [Shakespeare] overwhelms a genuine Lover of Poesy with all manner of abuse, talking about - "a poets rage/And stretched metre of an antique song" - Which by the by will be a capital Motto for my Poem [Endymion] - wont it? - He speaks too of "Time's antique pen" - and "Aprils first born flowers" and "deaths eternal cold" '
Beth also quoted John Keats's biography author Bate and his other critics like Jack Stillinger to show Keats's Shakespearen style as:
Bate: Keats reminds us of Shakespeare' in his use of vivid imagery that combines several senses.
Jack Stillinger: Keats is definitely " with Shakespeare" in the 'particularity and concreteness'' of his 'diction and imagery.....There is a striking quantity of things in Keats's poetry, things that can be visualized or that stimulate the auditory and other senses.
And Beth concluded: Virtually everyone who writes on Keats and Shakespeare agrees that the rich, sensuous imagery, the striking epithets and condensed language that characterizes Keats's best poetry are reminiscent of the same qualities in Shakespeare's verse and are likely to have been influenced or enhanced by the Romantic poet's in-depth study of his Presider's works.
The above passages I copied from Beth's essay on the Shakespearen Keats let me know more about Keats poetry and I enjoyed reading her critic on Keats.
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness;
Endymion Book 1 line 1-3
In John Keats poetry, we always easy to find fine phases and beautiful imagery. There are over 4000 lines in Endymion which I hardly go through all from Book 1 to Book 4. In my experience, it bore me to continue reading it cause it is too much luxurious description of the scenery. However, if I randomly pick up a few lines and read them slowly and more focus, in stead of boring, I find the description is beautiful and vivid, and my enjoyment increase. The imagery can keep in my mind for my meditation after. John Keats beautiful verses seem sprinkling inside his poetry and stimulate your appreciation for his art.
Then I read this book: Great Shakespearens-Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats Vol 4 today and I understood the style and the characteristics of his poetry. Beth Lau, a professor of English at California State University, who wrote the part on Keats, gave me a very good explanation of my experience.
'From Keats's letters, marginalia and poems reveal a number of significant patterns in his response to Shakespeare. On such pattern is his tendency to focus on discrete, isolated passages, often with little regard for the larger context. ' Beth Lau commented. She also quoted John Keats letter to Reynolds to show John Keats focused on particular beautiful imagery and fine phases in Shakespeare's work as:
'I neer found so many beautis in the sonnets - they seem to be full of fine things said unintentionally - in the intensity of working out conceits.....' Keats letter continues, 'He [Shakespeare] overwhelms a genuine Lover of Poesy with all manner of abuse, talking about - "a poets rage/And stretched metre of an antique song" - Which by the by will be a capital Motto for my Poem [Endymion] - wont it? - He speaks too of "Time's antique pen" - and "Aprils first born flowers" and "deaths eternal cold" '
Beth also quoted John Keats's biography author Bate and his other critics like Jack Stillinger to show Keats's Shakespearen style as:
Bate: Keats reminds us of Shakespeare' in his use of vivid imagery that combines several senses.
Jack Stillinger: Keats is definitely " with Shakespeare" in the 'particularity and concreteness'' of his 'diction and imagery.....There is a striking quantity of things in Keats's poetry, things that can be visualized or that stimulate the auditory and other senses.
And Beth concluded: Virtually everyone who writes on Keats and Shakespeare agrees that the rich, sensuous imagery, the striking epithets and condensed language that characterizes Keats's best poetry are reminiscent of the same qualities in Shakespeare's verse and are likely to have been influenced or enhanced by the Romantic poet's in-depth study of his Presider's works.
The above passages I copied from Beth's essay on the Shakespearen Keats let me know more about Keats poetry and I enjoyed reading her critic on Keats.
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