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Keats Context
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- 1When was Eve of St Agnes Written and Published?1819
- 2when were the Luddites active?1811-1813
- 3When was the Trade Unions Reform Act?1832
- 4When did Robert Owen buy New Lanark Mill?1824
- 5When was Jethro Tull's seed drill invented?1701
- 6Where does Keats show disdain towards agricultural and industrial revolutions in his poems?Romantic desire to escape the city "on the sea" and "o solitude" along with the horrors of expolitative trade and industry of Isabella's brothers in 'Isabella'
- 7When were the Napoleonic Wars?1803-1815
- 8When was the regency of Prince George established?1788. The instability of the monarchy can be seen in Hyperion
- 9When did Wordsworth and Coleridge publish the key Romantic book' Lyrical Ballads'?1798
- 10When was Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudiced published?1813
- 11When was the battle of Waterloo and what happens?1815. Napoleon is defeated by allied forces, including the British under the Duke of Wellington
- 12When were the Elgin Marbles purchased for the British Museum?1816
- 13When Lord Byron leave England amidst Sexual scandal?1816
- 14What was the Cato street Conspiracya group of radicals are arrested, convicted, and hanged then beheaded for conspiring to kill the entire cabinet as an act of revenge for the Peterloo Massacre and the repressive laws which followed afterwards
- 15What was the Peterloo massacre?1819: Manchester – British troops attack a protest for political and economic reform, 11 killed, 500 injured. Percy Shelley writes 'The Masque of Anarchy' in response to the Peterloo Massacre
- 16When did Keats' dad die?1804. Keats' mum remarries and sends children to live with grandparents
- 17When did Keats' mum die of TB?1810
- 18At what age did he begin to write poetry?1814
- 19When did he enter Guys Hospital as a medical student?1815
- 20Writes 'O Solitude! If must with thee dwell"1815
- 21WBecause wasnt rich enough to become a doctor
- 22When did the negative review about Keats come out and what did it say?Blackwood's Magazine links him to a "cockney school" which also included Leigh Hunt
- 23Who was William Hazlitt and how did his ideas in fluence Keats?"negative capability" seemed to link to Halzlitt's theory of"disinterested sympathy"
- 24What was negative capability?Writers pursue artistic beauty even if it leads to uncertainty. Preference of artistic beauty over philiosophy "truth is beauty and beauty is truth"
- 25Who was Keats' first love?Isabella Jones whom he met in Cantebury in 1817
- 26When did he meet Fanny Brawne and what tragic event happened that year?1818
- 27When did Keats die?23rd Feb 1821
- 28What is the name of the window with the coat of arms on it in the eve of st agnes?A scutcheon
- 29What is ottava rima? Which poem is it used in?Ottava Rima: eight-line stanza in iambic pentameter used in old Italian poetry. 'Isabella': Story based on Bocaccio therefore mimics the story he has based it on. Ottava rima used for heroic ballads back in the day. The story is not about heroism and is told very simply, which contradicts the traditional use of the ottava rima structure.
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