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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
English poet John Keats (1795-1821), a key figure of theRomantic movement, or his writings.
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Examples
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Or it may be both simultaneously, hovering in Keatsian negative capability.
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There's a great deal more going on in eighteenth-century speculations on the passions and the Sublime besides what we find in the Enquiry, but Burke's version of sublime terror has long been of particular interest to Romanticists because its signature seems to appear on nearly every example of the so-called Romantic Sublime: the boat-stealing episode in The Prelude, Wordsworth's confusion at Simplon Pass, the Ancient Mariner's experiences of terror and transcendence on a "wide, wide sea," Keatsian "dying into life," the Gothic violence of Shelley's "Mont Blanc" -- the list has gone on and on.
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Directed and choreographed by Dana Solimando for Musical Theatre West, the production illuminates the Keatsian idea that beauty is spiritual and eternal.
James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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Directed and choreographed by Dana Solimando for Musical Theatre West, the production illuminates the Keatsian idea that beauty is spiritual and eternal.
James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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Wood treats the novelistic canon like one giant Keatsian urn, a self-sufficient aesthetic artifact removed from commerce with the dirty, human world.
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Wood treats the novelistic canon like one giant Keatsian urn, a self-sufficient aesthetic artifact removed from commerce with the dirty, human world.
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So there you just have the Keatsian equivalent of, you know, beauty is truth, truth beauty.
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There are no signs here ofthe musical or narrative adventurousness that leavened its predecessor, 2008's Glory Hope Mountain, which means that nothing, from the Keatsian meditations on autumnal scenes in Slippery When Wet, to the muscle-flexing guitars on I Made the Law, feels like essential listening.
The Acorn: No Ghost 2010
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Wood treats the novelistic canon like one giant Keatsian urn, a self-sufficient aesthetic artifact removed from commerce with the dirty, human world.
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If you read the second (surviving) sonnet he wrote, a reaction to the death of his grandmother, you will see the opposite: at the beginning, a dull parade of (mere) conventions about the bliss the dead encounter in Heaven, and then a stunning and really Keatsian ending.
small, busy flames : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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