Barnard (1999) asserts that Keats is one of the great English romantic poets, whose prime belief was in art and beauty. ... These short romantic poems can be seen to be linked both structurally and thematically by a sequence of closely related problems and, as an effect, show Keats both at his most vulnerable and possessing the literary genius he has subsequently been accredited with. ... In Ode on Melancholy, Keats lets his guard down and gives himself up to the romantic sensation of "pleasing woe" and, it can be said, the culmination of these poems show a "melancholy desire for a world that ...

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