"Endymion (poem) Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818. It begins with the line ""A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"". ""Endymion"" is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets). Keats based the poem on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the moon goddess Selene. The poem elaborates on the original story and renames Selene ""Cynthia"" (an alternative name for Artemis). It starts by painting a rustic scene of trees, rivers, shepherds, and sheep. The shepherds gather around an altar and pray to Pan, god of"
"Adonaïs Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. , also spelled Adonaies, is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and most well-known works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in the spring of 1821 immediately after 11 April, when Shelley heard of Keats' death (seven weeks earlier). It is a pastoral elegy, in the English tradition of John Milton's ""Lycidas"". Shelley had studied and translated classical elegies. The title of the"
"of the """" episode ""Who Mourns for Adonais?"" (1967) is an allusion to the Shelley elegy, Stanza 47, line 415. A 2013 fan produced sequel, ""Pilgrim of Eternity"", continued the allusion, by using the title given to Byron in the poem. Adonaïs Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. , also spelled Adonaies, is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and most well-known works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed in"
"of poetry. With the maturation of Keats's genius, Shelly eventually became a devout and enthusiastic admirer of Keats. Keats's eventual illness, believed by Shelley to be directly related to the harsh criticism and negative reviews of Keats's poetry, prompted Shelley to invite Keats to stay with him in Italy. Keats declined Shelley's request, traveling instead with his companion Joseph Severn. Later proven to be suffering from tuberculosis, Keats died on February 23, 1821. Mourning the death of his friend, Shelley's grief is captured in the first stanza of the poem where the death of Adonaïs, who represents Keats, is announced."
"Henrietta Temple Henrietta Temple is the ninth novel written by Benjamin Disraeli, who would later become a Prime Minister of Britain. Disraeli wrote the first volume of ""Henrietta Temple"" in 1833 at the start of his affair with Henrietta Sykes, on whom the novel’s eponymous heroine is based, and completed it three years later, shortly after the affair had ended. The two volumes reflect these two stages of the relationship, the first with, ""the rustle of real petticoats [being] more audible than in any other part of Disraeli's work,"" the latter where, ""passion has vanished"". The novel was written at"
"a Nightingale"" (1819) idealizes the nightingale as a poet who has achieved the poetry that Keats himself longs to write. Keats directly employs the Philomel myth in ""The Eve of St. Agnes"" (1820) where the rape of Madeline by Porphyro mirrors the rape of Philomela by Tereus. Keats' contemporary, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) invoked a similar image of the nightingale, writing in his ""A Defence of Poetry"" that ""a poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen"
"aware indeed that I am nourishing a rival who will far surpass me and this is an additional motive & will be an added pleasure."" Shelley regarded ""Adonaïs"" as the ""least imperfect"" of his works. In a 5 June 1821 letter to John and Maria Gisborne, Shelley wrote about the work: ""It is a highly wrought ""piece of art"", perhaps better in point of composition than anything I have written."" The poet weeps for John Keats who is dead and who will be long mourned. He calls on Urania to mourn for Keats who died in Rome (sts. 1–VII). The"
"umbrella pines, myrtle shrubs, roses, and carpets of wild violets"". When Keats died at 25, he had been writing poetry seriously for only about six years, from 1814 until the summer of 1820; and publishing for only four. In his lifetime, sales of Keats' three volumes of poetry probably amounted to only 200 copies. His first poem, the sonnet ""O Solitude"" appeared in ""the Examiner"" in May 1816, while his collection ""Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other poems"" was published in July 1820 before his last visit to Rome. The compression of his poetic apprenticeship and maturity"
"Venetia (Disraeli novel) Venetia is a minor novel by Benjamin Disraeli, published in 1837, the year he was first elected to the House of Commons. The novel is a lightweight romantic fantasy. A contemporary reviewer, writing in an 1854 issue of the ""New Monthly Review"", declared that he “liked it least of all Disraeli’s works.” Michael Flavin’s ""Benjamin Disraeli: The Novel as a Political Discourse"" suggests that Venetia was largely a commercial endeavour for Disraeli, who was deep in debt at the time that he wrote it. In ""Byron and the Victorians"", Andrew Elfenbein discusses ""Venetia"" in terms of Disraeli's"
"development, education—the combination of experience and contemplation—and that only this process, not the rationality of the previous century, would bring about true Enlightenment. The classical influences Keats invoked affected other Romantic poets, but his odes contain a higher degree of allusion than most of his contemporaries' works. As for the main theme, indolence and poetry, the poem reflects the emotional state of being Keats describes in an early 1819 letter to his brother George: [I]ndolent and supremely careless ... from my having slumbered till nearly eleven ... please has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither Poetry,"
"in English poetic history as baffling as Keats's repetition of the word 'forlorn'"". When referring to the reliance of the ideas of John Dryden and William Hazlitt within the poem, Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, in 1999, argued ""whose notion of poetry as a 'movement' from personal consciousness to an awareness of suffering humanity it perfectly illustrates."" F. Scott Fitzgerald took the title of his novel ""Tender is the Night"" from the 35th line of the ode. According to Ildikó de Papp Carrington, Keats' wording, ""when, sick for home, / She stood in tears amid the alien corn"", seems to be"
"his house and preserved by his own doing. However, Keats relied on both his own imagination and other literature as sources for his depiction of the nightingale. The exact date of ""Ode to a Nightingale"", as well as ""Ode on Indolence"", ""Ode on Melancholy"", and ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"", is unknown, as Keats dated all as 'May 1819'. However, he worked on the four poems together, and there is a unity in both their stanza forms and their themes. The exact order the poems were written in is also unknown, but they form a sequence within their structures. While"
"Shelley often corresponded with Keats in Rome and loudly declared that Keats' death had been brought on by bad reviews in the ""Quarterly Review"". Seven weeks after the funeral he wrote ""Adonaïs"", a despairing elegy, stating that Keats' early death was a personal and public tragedy: Although Keats wrote that ""if poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all"", poetry did not come easily to him; his work was the fruit of a deliberate and prolonged classical self-education. He may have possessed an innate poetic sensibility, but his early works"
"the following July. The poem is one of the most frequently anthologized in the English language. ""Ode to a Nightingale"" is a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into the state of negative capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, rather, explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly personal to Keats. The nightingale described within the poem experiences a type of death but does not actually die. Instead, the songbird is capable of living through its song, which is a fate that humans cannot"
"that year. Unlike the other odes he wrote that year, ""Ode on Indolence"" was not published until 1848, 27 years after his death. The poem is an example of Keats's break from the structure of the classical form. It follows the poet's contemplation of a morning spent in idleness. Three figures are presented—Ambition, Love and Poesy—dressed in ""placid sandals"" and ""white robes"". The narrator examines each using a series of questions and statements on life and art. The poem concludes with the narrator giving up on having all three of the figures as part of his life. Some critics regard"
"and Keats. Frequently the poems deal with self-love derived from Ovid's account. An example of this is Gower's retelling of Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"" : Gower's reference to the yellow flower of the legend has been assumed to be the daffodil or ""Narcissus"", though as with all references in the older literature to the flower that sprang from the youth's death, there is room for some debate as to the exact species of flower indicated, some preferring ""Crocus"". Spenser announces the coming of the Daffodil in ""Aprill"" of his ""Shepheardes Calender"" (1579), ""Strowe me the ground with Daffadowndillies"". Constable compares the object"
"and an optimistic view of poetry found within his earlier poems, especially ""Sleep and Poetry"", and rejects them. This loss of pleasure and incorporation of death imagery lends the poem a dark air, which connects ""Ode to a Nightingale"" with Keats' other poems that discuss the demonic nature of poetic imagination, including ""Lamia"". In the poem, Keats imagines the loss of the physical world and sees himself dead—he uses an abrupt, almost brutal word for it—as a ""sod"" over which the nightingale sings. The contrast between the immortal nightingale and mortal man, sitting in his garden, is made all the"
"The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream, sometimes subtitled as ""A Vision"" instead of a dream, is an epic poem written by the English Romantic John Keats. Keats composed ""The Fall of Hyperion"" by reworking, expanding, and personally narrating lines from his earlier fragmented epic poem ""Hyperion"". The poem was abandoned before Keats's death. The poem begins with lyrical argument to introduce the work. In it, the narrator introduces the idea that the poem could be either a dream or a vision, and is unsure of which. The poem is divided into three scenes before"
"poetic tradition of Homer and Virgil. Keats mounts an attack against Alexander Pope and many of his own fellow Romantic poets by downplaying their poetic departures into the imaginary: ""with a puling infant's force/They sway'd about upon a rocking horse,/And thought it Pegasus. Ah dismal soul'd!"" (185-7). Although written in simplistic rhyming couplets, the gradual turn towards inwardness serves as an important anticipation for Keats's later poetry. Sleep and Poetry ""Sleep and Poetry"" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats. It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. It is"
"is midway in excellence."" Later, T. S. Eliot thought very highly of Keats's work and wrote ""The Odes—especially perhaps the ""Ode to Psyche""—are enough for his reputation."" Kennet Allott, in defending against any possible harsh criticism of ""Ode to Psyche"", argues that the poem ""is the Cinderella of Keats's great odes, but it is hard to see why it should be so neglected, and at least two poets imply that the conventional treatment of the poem is shabby and undeserved"". Allott then cites Bridges and Eliot as views that he sympathizes with, and he believes that the poem ""is neither"
"of the Irish War of Independence that followed the Easter Rising, at a time before the British Government decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase ""the second birth"" instead of ""the Second Coming"" in his first drafts. Phrases and lines from the poem are used in many works, in a variety of media, such as literature, motion pictures, television and music. Examples of works whose titles draw from ""The Second Coming"" include: Chinua Achebe's novel ""Things Fall Apart"" (1958), Joan Didion's essay collection ""Slouching Towards Bethlehem"" (1968), Robert B. Parker's novel ""The Widening"
"Sleep and Poetry ""Sleep and Poetry"" (1816) is a poem by the English Romantic poet John Keats. It was started late one evening while staying the night at Leigh Hunt's cottage. It is often cited as a clear example of Keats's bower-centric poetry, yet it contains lines that make such a simplistic reading problematic, such as: ""First the realm I'll pass/Of Flora, and old Pan ... I must pass them for a nobler life,/Where I may find the agonies, the strife /Of human hearts"" (101-102; 123-125). Furthermore, Keats defends his early ""bower-centric"" subject matter, which hearkens back to the classical"
"use a Christian understanding, but has an Apollonian basis to his poem, and Moneta forms the image of a sibyl and mimics Book 6 of the ""Aeneid"". The language and detail style is reminiscent of ""Paradise Lost"", which, in many letters, Keats has stated was a quality epic, but dealt with morality on a simplistic level. The form and meter of Keats's epic is similar to Milton's. The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream, sometimes subtitled as ""A Vision"" instead of a dream, is an epic poem written by the English Romantic John Keats. Keats"
"""Gitanjali (Song Offering)"" for which Tagore received Nobel Prize in literature. While Yeats's early poetry drew heavily on Irish myth and folklore, his later work was engaged with more contemporary issues, and his style underwent a dramatic transformation. His work can be divided into three general periods. The early poems are lushly pre-Raphaelite in tone, self-consciously ornate, and, at times, according to unsympathetic critics, stilted. Yeats began by writing epic poems such as ""The Isle of Statues"" and ""The Wanderings of Oisin"". His other early poems are lyrics on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects. Yeats's middle"
"his great political rival William Gladstone, Contarini refers to an adversary spouting ""the most ludicrous medley of pomposity."" Given the autobiographical nature of the work, written before Disraeli was even a member of Parliament, perhaps the most prophetic quote is when Contarini’s father, on becoming prime minister of a minor ""northern"" state, says to him, “My son, you will be Prime Minister of...; perhaps something greater."" Contarini Fleming Contarini Fleming - A Psychological Romance is the fourth and most autobiographical novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become a Prime Minister of Great Britain. It was published anonymously in"
"early work). It is also possible that Keats resented Hunt's transferred allegiance. Despite this, the two poets exchanged letters after Shelley and his wife moved to Italy. When Keats fell ill, the Shelleys invited him to stay with them in Pisa, but Keats only made it as far as Rome, accompanied by the painter Severn. Shelley's concern for Keats's health remained undimmed, until he learned months after the fact that Keats had died in Rome, prompting the composition of ""Adonaïs"". Shelley said of Keats, after inviting him to stay with him in Pisa after the latter fell ill: ""I am"
"the silent film version, ""Disraeli"". In 1929, following the sound revolution, Arliss made a sound remake, ""Disraeli"", for Warner Brothers. The film was a major critical and popular success and Arliss won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. Disraeli (play) Disraeli is a biographical play by the British writer Louis N. Parker, which was first staged in 1911. The play was commissioned by the actor George Arliss who saw a portrayal of the Victorian British statesman Benjamin Disraeli as an ideal vehicle for his stage career. It was written in London during 1910. Parker suffered from writer's"
"Lamia (poem) Lamia is a narrative poem written by English poet John Keats which was published in 1820. The poem was written in 1819, during the famously productive period that produced his 1819 odes. It was composed soon after his """"La belle dame sans merci"""" and his odes on Melancholy, on Indolence, to a Grecian Urn and to a Nightingale and just before ""Ode to Autumn"". The poem tells how the god Hermes hears of a nymph who is more beautiful than all. Hermes, searching for the nymph, instead comes across Lamia, trapped in the form of a serpent. She"
"Ode to Psyche ""Ode to Psyche"" is a poem by John Keats written in spring 1819. The poem is the first of his 1819 odes, which include ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"" and ""Ode to a Nightingale"". ""Ode to Psyche"" is an experiment in the ode genre, and Keats's attempt at an expanded version of the sonnet format that describes a dramatic scene. The poem serves as an important departure from Keats's early poems, which frequently describe an escape into the pleasant realms of one's imagination. Keats uses the imagination to show the narrator's intent to resurrect Psyche and reincarnate"
"candour that he restricted their imaginative power. His identity had prevailed."" Ode on Indolence The ""Ode on Indolence"" is one of five odes composed by English poet John Keats in the spring of 1819. The others were ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"", ""Ode on Melancholy"", ""Ode to a Nightingale"" and ""Ode to Psyche"". The poem describes the state of indolence, a word which is synonymous with ""avoidance"" or ""laziness"". The work was written during a time when Keats was presumably more than usually occupied with his material prospects. After finishing the spring poems, Keats wrote in June 1819 that its"
"the poem is discussed by the protagonist when teaching his English class. The 2009 biopic on Keats's life starring Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish, focused on the final three years of his life and his relationship with Fanny Brawne. It was named ""Bright Star"" after this poem, which is recited multiple times in the film. In the Covert Affairs episode ""Speed of Life"" (Season 3, Episode 4) the character Simon Fischer admits to Annie Walker that the tattoo on his upper left shoulder blade of Ursa Minor was inspired by John Keats's poem. Although she asks him, Simon doesn't tell"
"Falconet (novel) Falconet is the name generally given to the untitled, final and unfinished novel of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, who died before completing it. Disraeli started work on his final novel in late 1880, a few months before his death in April 1881. It ends mid-sentence one paragraph into its tenth chapter. The work was first published in 1905 in The Times 24 years after Disraeli’s death and was entitled ""Falconet"" since Disraeli usually named his novels after their main character. Joseph Toplady Falconet is the third son of the owner of a successful bank. He is"
"editions use the text of Longmans Collected Edition (1870–71). Sybil (novel) Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's ""The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844"", ""Sybil"" traces the plight of the working classes of England. Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in which the majority of England's working classes lived — or, what is generally called the Condition of England question. The book is a roman à thèse, or a novel with a thesis — which was meant to create a"