Example Sentences

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The arrival of each winter, a time when the world seems quieter, invoking introspection, gets me thinking of the poet and what we might call the Keatsian model of the heart.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019

It’s a sweet little stream ideal for a picnic on the grass, or lying on your side in a pose of Keatsian languor while you draft a sonnet.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2018

Reading Lessing’s subtly brilliant short story Out of the Fountain, I had that Keatsian feeling of a new world coming into view.

From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2016

You’re talking about the Keatsian notion of negative capability.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2016

The poet may take things that had previously existed—the Keatsian and Shelleian lyric, the Wordsworthian attitude to Nature, the Miltonic blank verse; but inevitably, invariably, each under his hands becomes different, becomes individual and original.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George