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The poem was written by 16th century metaphysical poet, John Donne (1573-1631). It was published in Donne’s poetry collection, Poems in 1633. The poem is one of many pieces written by Donne in the field of love, sensual or spiritual. The sonnet is divided in to two stanzas, each of fourteen lines. The speaker of… Continue reading Air and Angels Summary by John Donne

Keats claimed not to care for his most critically neglected long romance, Isabella; Or, The Pot of Basil (1818), calling the poem “mawkish,” “weaksided, with “an amusing sober-sadness about it.” He tried to dismiss the poem as “too smokeable” and worried that there was “too much inexperience of life, and simplicity of knowledge in it.”… Continue reading Isabella Or The Pot of Basil Analysis by John Keats

Born in London, England, on October 31, 1795, John Keats, English Romantic poet, devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the Lake District. His exposure and overexertion… Continue reading Summary of Isabella Or The Pot of Basil by John Keats

About the poet – John Donne (1572 – 1631), called one of the foremost Metaphysical poets was the son of a prosperous London ironmonger and his mother was the daughter of John Heywood. He studied law and travelled the continent and though he was a voracious reader he never attained a university degree. His poetry… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Extasie by John Donne

He was the son of a wealthy iron merchant, born in London in 1572. He came from a very influential family background. On his father’s side he came from an old Welsh family and on his mother’s side from the Heywoods and Sir Thomas More’s family. He was educated at his home till he was… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of A Valediction of Weeping by John Donne

Beaming Notes: Meg Merillies, John Keats (1795—1821) John Keats, wrote despairingly in a letter to Fanny Brawne, when he was consumptive “If I should die, I leave no immortal work behind.” A year later he died at only 25. Yet he ranks among now among the greatest poets in English Literature and became one of… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Meg Merillies by John Keats

Born in London, England, on October 31, 1795, John Keats, English Romantic poet, devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the Lake District. His exposure and overexertion… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of On the Sea by John Keats

“Endymion”, in many ways signifies a romantic culmination of Keats’s firm belief in the immutability of beauty, and of its claim to a legitimacy vis-à-vis its permanence, and its ability to conjure, or “contextualize” the truth. The poet’s aesthetic view of beauty as an intransient source of pleasure and joy comes in the face of… Continue reading A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Summary and Analysis