Article: Poetry Of John Keats: Sonnets

Keats, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Sonnets

Sonnet: "To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent," Introduction:

This poem was written in June, 1816. For some two years prior to its
composition, Keats' had been writing verse, influenced by Spenser, among the
"illustrious dead," and by Leigh Hunt, among his contemporaries. This early
poetry is competent, and sometimes the appearance of a really striking passage
in it, of the sort which fills the mature work, seems to prophesy the
greatness to come. The sonnet "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent," also
titled "Written in the Fields," is representative of these first literary
efforts.

In the fall of 1815, the twenty-year-old Keats had left the ...

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