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Q1: When was John Keats born?
Answer: He was born on 31st October 1795
Q2: Where was Keats born?
Answer: London
Q3: Keats had licence of which profession?
Answer: Apothecary but he never practiced it.
Q4: John Keats’ Sonnet O Solitude is published by ?
Answer: Leigh Hunt
Q5: Which magazine criticized Endymion written by John Keats as nonsense?
Answer: Blackwoor’s magazine
Q6: Yeats translated which classic book?
Answer: Aeneid
Q7: Keats wrote many love letters to ?
Answer: Fanny Brawne
Q8: Keats belong to which artistic and literary movement?
Answer: Romanticism
Q9: John Keats wrote many poems in which form?
Answer: Odes
Q10: In Keats’ final sonnet, ” Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art”, to whom does the title, “Bright Star” refer?
Answer: Fanny Brawne
Q11: This Ode is not considered a “Great Odes”?
Answer: Ode to Indolence
Q12: Who called Keats “a tadpole of the lakes” in reference to his poetic works?
Answer: Lord Byron
Q13: ” A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is the line from which poem?
Answer: Endymion
Q14: Keats’ poem Endymoin is made up of how many books?
Answer: Four
Q15: Who wrote “Adonais” an elegy to Keats?
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley (P.B Shelley)
Q16:”Beauty is Truth, truth beauty”, the line i from which Keats’ Ode?
Answer: Ode to Grecian Urn
Q17: When was Ode to Grecian Urn written?
Answer: Ode to Grecian Urn was written in the spring of 1819.
Q18: When Ode to Nightingale was written and What inspired Keats to write this ode?
Answer: It was written in the spring of 1819 and Ode to Nightingale was inspired by the song of a Nightingale that had built its nest close to the house of Keats’ friend.
Q19: When was Ode to Autumn was published?
Answer: Ode to Autumn was published in 1820.
Q20: What was Keats reading while composing Ode on Melancholy?
Answer: Keats was reading Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.
Q21: When was Ode on Indolence written?
Answer: It was written in March, 1819.
Q22: What is the form of Ode on Fancy and when was it written?
Answer: Ode on Fancy was written in 1818 but was not printed until 1820. The metre and the general tone of the poem show traces of Milton’s poem L’ Allegro and II Penseroso.
Q23: What are specification of Ode to Apollo?
Answer: Keats wrote it at the age of twenty but there is hardly any originality in the poem. Probably it was written under the influence of Dryden and Gray as it contains classical allusions and artificial conceits.
Q24: The hero of which Keats poem is the “Knight at arms, alone and palely loitering”?
Answer: La Bella Dame Sans Merci and this poem is highly appreciated by critics.
Q25: Why did Keats refuse Shelley’s invitation to be Shelley guest in Italy?
Answer: Keats was poor.
Q26: What is the famous term that is associated with Keats?
Answer: Negative Capability
Q27: Keats was greatly influenced by which famous poet?
Answer: Keats was greatly influenced by John Milton style and manner.
Q28: What is the most common poetic quality in Keats and Tennyson?
Answer: Pictorial element
Q29: Why Shelley disliked Keats poetry?
Answer: Because he used to think Keats’ poetry is devoid of the revolutionary spirit.
Q30: What is engraved on Keats epitaph?
Answer: “Here lies one whose name was writ in water”.
Q31: How and where Keats died?
Answer: Keats died of Tuberculosis in Rome.
Q32: When did Keats die?
Answer: Keats died on 23rd February 1821.
