On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
FOOTNOTES: Lord Eglin made an expedition to the Parthenon in Greece, returning with a significant number of marble statues and friezes, which he subsequently sold to the British Museum in 1816.
Source: The Longman Anthology of Poetry (Palgrave, 2006)
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Poet John Keats 1795–1821
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Subjects Architecture & Design, History & Politics, Social Commentaries, Painting & Sculpture, Arts & Sciences
Poetic Terms Sonnet
Biography
John Keats, who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. But at each point in his development he took on the challenges of a wide range of poetic forms from the sonnet, to the Spenserian romance, to the Miltonic epic, defining anew their possibilities with his own distinctive fusion of earnest energy, . . .
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SUBJECT Architecture & Design, History & Politics, Social Commentaries, Painting & Sculpture, Arts & Sciences
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Poetic Terms Sonnet
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