Abstract
M.A. (English)
John Keats (31 October.1795 - 23 February 1821) is prominent
among the younger generation of poets of the Romantic period.
From the early admiration of his contemporaries to the present
much attention has been paid to the nature of Romanticism in his
work. A member of the "Keats circle," Joseph Ritchie, as early
as November 1817 wrote to a friend that he thought Keats "might
well prove to be the great poetical luminary of the age to
come."l In an essay entitled "On the Development of
Keats' (sic) Reputation," (1968), J. R. MacGillivray discusses
this ongoing admiration of Keats as central to the embodiment of .
Romanticism, and refers also to the veneration of the poet by
members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. 2 MacGillivray
states that they had a natural affinity for the poet's work
because of the "romantic medievalism" in some of his poems, and
because of the sensuous richness of some of his description...