Aspects of classicism in John Keats's poetry from "Endymion" to "The fall of Hyperion"

M.A. (English)John Keats (31 October.1795 - 23 February 1821) is prominent among the younger generation of poets of the Romantic period. From the early admiration of his contemporaries to the present much attention has been paid to the nature of Romanticism in his work. A member of the "Keats circle," Joseph Ritchie, as early as November 1817 wrote to a friend that he thought Keats "might well prove to be the great poetical luminary of the age to come."l In an essay entitled "On the Development of Keats' (sic) Reputation," (1968), J. R. MacGillivray discusses this ongoing admiration of Keats as central to the embodiment of . Romanticism, and refers also to the veneration of the poet by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. 2 MacGillivray states that they had a natural affinity for the poet's work because of the "romantic medievalism" in some of his poems, and because of the sensuous richness of some of his description..