The Odes of John Keats. Helen Vendler.

John Keats's medical studies at Guy's Hospital coincided with a boom in interest in both the traditional medicines of the sub-continent and the experiences of British doctors and patients in India. Despite extensive scholarship on the impact of Keats's medical knowledge on his poetry, little consideration has been given to Keats's exposure to Indian medicine. The poetry that followed his time at Guy's contains numerous references to the contemporary state of knowledge about India and its medical practices, both past and present. This essay focuses on Isabella and considers the major sources of information about Indian medicine in the Regency. It proposes that some of Keats's medical imagery might be read as a specific response to the debates about medicine in the sub-continent.

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Quintessence of Truth and Beauty in the Writings of Rabindranath Tagore and Keats A Comparative Analysis

IJOHMN ◽

10.24113/ijohmn.v1i3.13 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 52-68

Author(s):

Swati Rani Debnath

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

John Keats ◽

Spiritual Discipline ◽

Literary Works ◽

Rabindranath Tagore ◽

Human Thought ◽

Spiritual Perspective ◽

Eye Opening ◽

Sensual Pleasure ◽

The Universe

In literary works, truth and beauty have been expressed in a varied number of ways by authors of all genres. Rabindranath Tagore and John Keats, two prominent writers from two languages have linked beauty and truth in philosophical manners in many of their writings. Beauty and truth are not separate entities; they flow from the same spring. Tagore views beauty as linked to eternal characteristics of nature and truth is associated with it. Keats sees beauty from spiritual perspective and according to him, realization of truth leads to the fulfillment of beauty. Readers of Tagore and Keats get eye-opening insights from the viewpoints that are followed by their expressions in regarding the tenets of truth and beauty. Truth and beauty fulfill each other in their harmonious existence in the universe. The authors make us realize that beauty does not emanate merely from sensual pleasure; it is an abstract idea, a spiritual understanding that originates from rhythmic attachment with truth. This article compares and contrasts philosophies of truth and beauty from the writings of Tagore and Keats. In doing so, the paper investigates the literary works of the two writers and explores how they have philosophized truth and beauty in the domain of human thought as well as in the realm of spiritual discipline.

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Madness Writing Poetry/ Poetry Writing Madness

10.1093/oso/9780198733706.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

James Whitehead

Keyword(s):

William Wordsworth ◽

Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽

English Literature ◽

Percy Bysshe Shelley ◽

John Keats ◽

William Blake ◽

Lord Byron ◽

The Public ◽

John Clare ◽

Romantic Poetry

The final chapter returns to the scene of Romantic poetry, looking at poetry by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Clare. It reads these Romantic texts as poised articulations of the idea of poetic madness, and discusses generally how these writers contributed to, or interwove with their own lives and works, new and rediscovered mythologies of madness, sometimes anticipating or resisting the public images created by journalism, criticism, or biography, previously described. Finally, the Romantic mad poet is considered in relation to criticism and the canonical role of Romanticism in English literature.

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