John Keats
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Character Key:
Display Name:
John Keats
Sort Name:
Keats, John
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
Occupation:
Other
Specific Job:
Poet
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Saturday, October 31, 1795
Origin:
England
Cause of Death:
Disease
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Biography:
John Keats, the author of the poem that McCaslin Edmonds reads to Ike McCaslin in "The Bear" section of the novel, was one of the principal figures of the second generation of British Romantics. Unlike the most prominent of his contemporaries, Keats was born of humble origins. He died of tuberculosis at the young age of twenty-five, at which time he had only been a published poet for five years. The poem in "five stanzas" from which Edmonds reads is not named in Faulkner's text, but the two lines it quotes make it easy to recognize as Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (282), one of Faulkner's own favorite poems.
Ontological Status:
Historical/Real
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
Date of Death:
Friday, February 23, 1821
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