Vocabulary. sorrow - печаль inevitable - неизбежный perishable - преходящий eternal - вечный

sorrow - печаль inevitable - неизбежный perishable - преходящий eternal - вечный

employ - применять, использовать

livery - прокат

stable - кошошня

dedicate - посвящать

ridicule - осмеивать

snecringly - насмешливо

assign - приписывать

hostile - враждебный

premonition - предчувствие, предостережение

poverty - бедность

creativity - творчество

uneven - неровный, нечетный

lack - нуждаться, недоставать

consistency - последовательность, постоянство

mature - зрелый

shepherd - пастух

goddess - богиня

entrance - приводить в состояние восторга serpent woman - дьяволица universe - вселенная um - урна

nightingale - соловей enduring - длительный, стойкий

Answer the Questions

1.What is Keats's poetry concerned with?

2. When and where was Keats born?

3. What did he study after school?

4. Why did he never practice its a doctor?

5. Whom was his first volume dedicated to?

6. Why did the critics ridicule his second volume?

7. When did Keats experience an intense burst of creativity?

8. What words arc written on his grave?

9. What influence did Keats' early poetry show?

10. What is «Endymion» about?

11. What features arc characteristic of his latest poetry?

12. Why did Keats called some of his poems «negative capability»?

THE VICTORIANS (1830—1880) 7.1. Background