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Keatsian, a. and n.|ˈkiːtsɪən| [f. the name of the English poet John Keats (1795–1821) + -ian.] A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Keats or his poetry. B. n. A student or admirer of Keats or his poetry.
1845T. Wade Let. 26 May in H. E. Rollins Keats Circle (1948) II. 119 A Keats-ian poem. 1891Athenæum 23 May 667/3 A little manuscript book..of some interest to Keatsians. 1901H. B. Forman in Keats Compl. Works III. 112 He [sc. Woodhouse] opens with a Keatsian enough punctuation of the first four lines. 1910H. Walker Lit. Victorian Era ii. ii. 299 A Keatsian worship of beauty..is his [sc. Tennyson's] characteristic. 1934F. L. & P. Lucas From Olympus to Styx vi. 69 In spite of its Keatsian name, Lamia has little romance or even history. 1968Guardian 22 Mar. 9/3 The kind of detail, immensely rewarding to Keatsians, with which Mr Gittings's biography swarms, is well exemplified by his suggestion about the authorship of the essay for ‘The Indicator’ which Leigh Hunt was composing extempore..while Keats..lay listening on a sofa. 1970Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 9/6 The day..beginning as a mist wherein the Keatsian ‘mellow fruitfullness’ lay wrapped in its own swaddling clothes. So Keatsiˈana (see ana suffix, -iana).
1818R. Woodhouse Let. Nov. in H. E. Rollins Keats Circle (1948) I. 66, I shod like to add that to my collection of ‘Keatsiana’. 1898[see -iana]. 1962Daily Tel. 21 Mar. 17/5 (heading) Keatsiana... I have been commissioned to write a book on Keats [etc.]. |