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Keats the Romantic poet

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From: New Straits Times
Date: 20000515
Author:Eu Hooi Khaw

Eu Hooi Khaw
New Straits Times
05-15-2000
Keats the Romantic poet
Byline: Eu Hooi Khaw
Edition: Life and Times; 2*
Section: Just Kidding

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;

Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep

Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...

From the poem Endymion ANYONE who has read the works of the English poet John Keats would remember this inspiring verse most of all. He was a Romantic poet, not so much to do with love, but with a rebellion. It was reaction against the stiff, ...

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