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    A Study Guide for John Keats's "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art"
    A Study Guide for John Keats's "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art"
    A Study Guide for John Keats's "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art"
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    A Study Guide for John Keats's "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art"

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    A Study Guide for John Keats's "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535819978
    A Study Guide for John Keats's "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art"

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      A Study Guide for John Keats's "Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" - Gale

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      Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art

      John Keats

      1819

      Introduction

      In the summer of 1819 Keats and his friend James Rice left for an extended stay on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of England. Keats had spent time alone on the Isle in the spring of 1817, reading Shakespeare and receiving the inspiration that led to the long poem Endymion as well as some of his most famous insights about the nature of art. He hoped the 1819 journey would prove equally invigorating, but he was distracted by his troubled love for Fanny Brawne. Keats had met her in December, 1818, but he was having trouble fully committing to their relationship. He wrote several letters to Fanny during his stay on the Isle, and one in particular seems to give insight into Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art. In the letter, he writes, I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. Keats’s biographer Aileen Ward writes that while composing the letter, Keats witnessed the planet Venus rising outside his window. At that moment, Ward says, "doubt and distraction left him; it was only beauty, Fanny’s and the star’s, that

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