John keats (1795— 182 1) is an English poet. 179510/kloc-0 was born in London on October 29th, and his parents died one after another. His protector arranged for him to study medicine and be an apprentice and assistant to the doctor. 18 16 began to publish poetry, then gave up studying medicine and decided to engage in literary creation. He was poor all his life and dissatisfied with the present situation in Britain. He once joined a radical democratic group headed by Hunter. 182 1 died of tuberculosis in Rome on February 23rd.
Keats is one of the most talented romantic poets in England. Most of his poems praise the harmony of nature and yearn for the artistic beauty of ancient Greece. His Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to an Ancient Greek Urn and Ode to Autumn are immortal works in English poetry.
Keats formed many unique artistic views in his creation. These digestions can be found in his poems, such as Letters and Heprion. Among them, the famous view is "negative capacity" (also translated as "natural acceptance"). The main tendency of Keats' artistic thought is to emphasize intuition and despise reason. He said, "I'd rather live a life full of emotion than thinking." The so-called "negative ability" is a concrete concept put forward by him to express his thoughts and opinions. In his view, a great poet should have the aesthetic ability of "overriding all other considerations" or "canceling all considerations", "being in vague and mysterious doubt" and not rushing to "pursue facts and truth". This "negative ability" is actually an aesthetic imagination that relies on intuition. Keats regards this kind of ability as the quality of literary achievement, and thinks that Shakespeare has this quality. In his view, pure reason and moral sense "only appreciate truth and virtue", while "imagination likes strength and strong excitement, and also likes truth, virtue and justice", so imagination "can create essential beauty", "the beauty captured by imagination must be true" and imagination is "truth". Poets rely on imagination to observe the beauty of the "eternal world", that is, to create the "pure beauty" of the unity of truth, goodness and beauty. In this way, he put forward his own principles of poetry creation: grasping people with wonderful exaggeration; The creation of poetic beauty should be as natural as sunrise, sunset and leaf germination; Poetry creation "can't rely on laws and formulas, but only on feeling and sensitivity itself". It is believed that the * * * given by poetry is directly proportional to the strong tragic effect of the work, and has nothing to do with the virtue it proposes or the benefits from a moral point of view. Related to these thoughts, he also put forward a unique opinion that seems to be contrary to the general proposition of romanticism. He believes that poets have no personality and no nature, and should "live a full life" and "be equally interested in everything", which is exactly what he likes for moral philosophers. Its meaning is to advocate giving full play to the poet's intuitive ability.
Keats' poetic theory is unique, aiming at confronting the vulgarity and ugliness of aristocratic bourgeois society with "pure beauty" and "pure poetry", and pinning his ideal for the future world on a dream life full of aesthetic feeling. But it contains aestheticism tendency, which has a great influence on the later aestheticism trend of thought.