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The Sensuous Poet

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  • Why is Keats “the sensuous poet”
  • Learn about  the insecure youth that John Keats experienced
  • Learn how Keats wanted to be a doctor, NOT a writer
  • What words by Keats were Mary Poppins’s first lines when she pulled an umbrella out of her bag?


  • 0:00 INTRODUCTION
  • 0:45 ROMANTIC REFRESHER
  • 5:05 WERE THEY ROCK STARS?
  • 6:30 GHOSTS OF POE AND KEATS ENTER
  • 7:00 EARLY LIFE OF KEATS
  • 7:42 EDUCATION
  • 11:18 INTEREST IN MEDICINE
  • 12:30 CHANGE TO WRITING
  • 13:25 SONNETS (DONNE, BROWNING, SHAKESPEARE, KEATS)
  • 20:59 ENDYMION
  • 23:01 MRS. REYNOLD’S CAT
  • 24:52 SENSUOUSNESS IN KEAT’S POETRY
  • 30:38 GROWTH AS A WRITER
  • 31:56 CARE OF BROTHER
  • 32:55 NEW ENERGY AND FUTURE
  • 33:34 SOURCES AND OUTRO

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