1. John Keats (1795-1821)

2. Features of his poetry 1.emphasis on the creation of beauty by musicality and images 2.palpable images 3. sensuousness 4. melancholy “A thing of beauty is a joy forever./Its loveliness increases, it will never/Pass into nothingness”. “Beauty is truth; truth beauty”.

3. Ode on a Grecian Urn 1.ode: a long lyric poem,serious and dignified in subject,tone and style,sometimes with elaborate stanzaic structure, often written to celebrate an event or in individual.

4. Ode on a Grecian Urn 2.themes beauty or charm and immortality of art or literature; superiority of art over life or reality transient beauty immortalized by art c.f. 一瓷永寿，百代消亡

5. Ode on a Grecian Urn 3.artistic features of the poem 1)images 2)sensuousness: resorting to different forms of art combined: poetry,music,painting etc and appealing to different senses

6. To Autumn To Autumn 1. A poem of movement/progression: pre-harvest; harvest; post-harvest morning; noon; evening

7. To Autumn(2) To Autumn(2) 2. A poem of imagery/appealing to different senses: From tactile sense to visual, to auditory From vegetable world, to human activity, to the world of animals, birds and insects

8. To Autumn(3) To Autumn(3) What might be implied by the movement/progression/change of the poem? Beauty on earth is transitory and death is inevitable.

9. Romantic poets compared 1. Wordsworth ： beauty in simplicity; 2. Coleridge:beauty in the extraordinary and supernatural; 2. Coleridge:beauty in the extraordinary and supernatural; 3. Byron:powerful poetry with satire; philosophy and picturesque descriptions of natural scene; 4.Shelley:exquisite beauty; 5. Keats:sensuous beauty.