济慈(1795～1821年)

Keats, John

英国浪漫主义诗人。一个马车行经理的儿子，受正规教育不多。当了几年外科医生的徒弟和助手，二十一岁时完全投入了诗歌创作。他的第一件成熟的作品是十四行诗〈初读查普曼译荷马史诗〉（1816）。二十五岁时差点死於肺结核，同年，他写成了长诗《恩底弥翁》（1818）。在1819年紧张的几个月里，写了许多他最好的作品：几首很好的颂歌（包括〈希腊古瓮〉、〈夜莺〉和〈秋颂〉）、关於巨人许佩里翁的故事的前两章以及〈无情的美人〉。大部分发表在里程碑式的诗集《莱米亚》、《伊莎贝拉》和《圣阿格尼斯之夜和其他诗歌》（1820）中。他的作品里充满了逼真的意象、极大的感性美以及对失去的古典世界的光辉的渴望，他的一些最佳作品已列於最伟大的英国传统文学中。他的书信是所有英国诗人所写的书信中最好的部分。

English version：

1795～1821年

Keats, John

English Romantic poet. The son of a livery-stable manager, his formal education was limited. He worked as a surgeon's apprentice and assistant for several years before devoting himself entirely to poetry at 21. His first mature work was the sonnet “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer” (1816). His long Endymion appeared in the same year (1818) as the tuberculosis that would kill him at 25. During a few intense months of 1819 he produced many of his greatest works: several great odes (including “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” and “To Autumn”), two unfinished versions of the story of the titan Hyperion, and “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.” Most were published in the landmark collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820). Marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and a yearning for the lost glories of the classical world, his finest works are among the greatest of the English tradition. His letters are among the best by any English poet.