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This blog is dedicated to the jewels of literature, including novels, poetry, writers and their writings. It is about American, English, African, Indian English literature etc. I have made an attempt to interpret literature from my point of view. My blog

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  • John Keats - His Great Odes

    Posted on Sunday August 3rd, 2008 at 11:18 in english poetry, john keats

    “Keats is probably the only romantic poet, apart from Blake, whose rank is conspicuously higher that it was in the nineteenth century”, says Douglas Bush. Selincourt finds his odes comparable to Shakespearean sonnets. Six of the odes are consider...

  • Synaesthesia

    Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 00:13 in john keats, literary techniques, shelley p.b.

    The word ‘synaesthesia’ has been derived from a Greek word meaning ‘perceiving together’. It means concurrent appeal to more than one senses. J.A. Cuddon defines it as the “response through several senses to the stimulation of one”. It is...

  • Keats as a Poet

    Posted on Sunday November 4th, 2007 at 08:42 in english poetry, john keats

    In Keats’ ‘Endymion’ the poet is still immature but shows great advancement. ‘Endymion’ is sensuous, imaginative and fanciful. The poet has attempted to unite the real and the ideal. To quote him from ‘Endymion’:“A thing of beauty is ...

  • Keats as an Inspiration

    Posted on Monday October 29th, 2007 at 11:37 in english poetry, british poets, john keats

    John Keats was the youngest of the romantic poets. He was born on 31st October, 1795, in London. His life was tragic in the sense that he suffered many calamities during his very short life. His brother Tom and his mother died of consumption. He also...