Keats - background

Romanticism

• - Romanticism was an artistic and philosophical mvt that redefined ways in which people in western cultures thought about their cultures and themselves
• Imagination
• - Imagination was seen as the greatest faculty of the mind
• Nature
• - seen as being constructed by a divine imagination
• Symbolism and myth
• Emotion
• Individualism and the Romantic Hero

Keats

• died young, constantly criticised, sad auld life