JOHN KEATS TREASURE HUNT

SECTION 2: CONTEXT

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this piece of art represents the romantic period becuase of its exotic beauty and passion, irrationality, spontaneity, closeness to nature. Also because it rejects order, calm, harmony, balance, rationality, plus as we can often see in romantic art it shows a perference for exotic, mysterious, montruous, diseased and occult. and finally, it goes back to the ancient greek classical period through the use of mythological figures.

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The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France from 1789 to 1799 that profoundly affected French and modern history, marking the decline of powerful monarchies and churches and the rise of democracy and nationalism
Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789

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·         Interest in the common man and childhood

·         Strong senses, emotions and feelings

·         Awe of nature

·         Celebrations of the individuals

·         Importante of imagination

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    Eugene Delacroix “Jeune orphelineau cimetiere” 1824

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    Picture of Lord Byron

The relationship between Lord Byron and John Keats was not good

The rivalry and dislike between George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron, and John Keats has been much discussed; in their own time, however, it was felt far more keenly by Keats.  Byron was a flamboyant and handsome nobleman whose wit, charm and ancestral title accorded him entry into the most elite circles of English society.  He was also an accomplished and celebrated poet.  John Keats was a poor and struggling middle-class poet whose work was often savaged by the great critics of the age; he was advised that poetry was the provenance of nobleman such as Byron, and dismissed (by Byron, among others) as a 'Cockney' poet.