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Keats
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Keats
John. 1795--1821, English poet. His finest poetry is contained in Lamia and other Poems (1820), which includes The Eve of St Agnes, Hyperion, and the odes On a Grecian Urn, To a Nightingale, To Autumn, and To Psyche


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The Wilfred Owen setting that follows this one finds only a single woman asleep and dreaming of Keatsian "golden gardens and sweet glooms" while ghosts of men from the trenches of World War I lurk in her walls, her rooms, her tapestries; their torn red mouths make her roses bloom.
Here, a Keatsian stanza of English rural townscape gives way, bit by bit, to a hideous modern town full of snarling traffic and bored-looking people that might be anywhere, while the pretty little regency gothick villa that stands at the heart of Poets' Corner is up for sale and demolition.
After learning of Miss Storey's baby, he spends a Keatsian evening listening to nightingales, and it is then he prevents her from drowning herself and her child, "putting an arm around her and drawing her up against his heart (144).
 
 
 
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