{"id":318,"date":"2015-02-27T06:03:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T06:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=318"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:59:43","slug":"works-inspired-john-keats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/keats\/works-inspired-john-keats\/","title":{"rendered":"Works Inspired By John Keats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since his death in 1821, John Keats has become one of the most famous and admired English poets. Not surprisingly, his influence upon other writers has also been profound. At this page, you can learn about 19th and 20th century works which were inspired by Keats’s life and poetry. For copyright reasons, none of the 20th century works can be reproduced.<\/p>\n

19th century<\/span>
\nPercy Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats<\/a><\/i>\u00a0 first printed in July 1821
\nOscar Wilde, On the sale by auction of Keats’s love letters<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

20th century<\/span>
\n\"JunketsTom Clark, Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the life of John Keats<\/i>\u00a0 (prose\/poem biography of Keats)
\nTony Harrison, A Kumquat for John Keats <\/i>
\nAmy Clampitt, Voyages: A Homage to John Keats <\/i>(prose)
\nAndrew Motion, Salt Water<\/i> (includes ‘Sailing to Italy’, about Keats)
\nThe Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen also wrote two poems about Keats.\u00a0Click here<\/a> to read ‘To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime’.\u00a0 It’s lovely.
\nAnd for many readers, the great American 20th century poet Wallace Stevens<\/a> is the true descendant of John Keats.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to learn about his life and poetry, and decide for yourself if he was inspired by Keats.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"HyperionJohn Keats (of a sort) is also a main character in Dan Simmons’ Hyperion saga.\u00a0 Over the years, several readers have written to me about these science-fiction books.\u00a0 I grew up reading my father’s sci-fi paperbacks from the ’50s and ’60s (what is now termed the ‘golden age’ of sci-fi) so this, combined with my encyclopedic knowledge of Doctor Who<\/a><\/i>, makes me a proud sci-fi geek.\u00a0 I still don’t understand why Philip Dick isn’t considered one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century.\u00a0 Or why books like Pavane, <\/i>A Canticle for Leibowitz, etc are stocked in the ‘science fiction’ section of bookstores rather than in the all-encompassing ‘literature’ section.\u00a0 This marketplace division is lunacy and extends to great mystery and historical fiction writers as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

So when people wrote in to recommend the Hyperion books, I was intrigued and gave them a try.\u00a0 It all worked out in the end.\u00a0 Hyperion is pretty good.\u00a0 It has an interesting premise and quirky characters.\u00a0 I liked the ‘John Keats’ angle, but that may just be my Keats enthusiasm speaking.\u00a0 And if the books encourage readers to check out John Keats the poet, well, I’m all for it.<\/p>\n

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A few pop culture references….<\/span><\/p>\n

Morrissey sings about Keats (and Wilde) in ‘Cemetry Gates’, one of the songs on The Smiths’ 1986 pop masterpiece The Queen Is Dead<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And the sitcom Married… with Children<\/i> mentioned a poet’s name only twice and both times it was John Keats.\u00a0 Al recited a poem and Peg asked, ‘John Keats?’\u00a0 And there was a spoof of a sitcom about ‘a man in the 18th century who wrote poetry and lived with his family…. The Family Keats!’\u00a0 (Yes, they had the century wrong.)
\nOne of the writers must have had a Keatsian bent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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