A Study Guide for John Keats's "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
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On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
John Keats
1817
Introduction
John Keats's sonnet On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
was written on December 30, 1816, in friendly competition with the poet and editor Leigh Hunt. It was one of the first flowers of a genius that within two years would produce masterpieces among the greatest in world literature, such as Endymion and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. Although his talent is universally acclaimed today, Keats failed to attain great literary success or recognition in his lifetime. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
was originally published in his 1817 collection Poems and later that year was republished in one of Hunt's newspapers to promote the book. Keats was only twenty-one years old at the time. However, political and class considerations doomed the work to failure, together with Keats's later publications. Only the most discerning of Keats's contemporaries, such as the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, recognized his genius in his lifetime. Following Keats's crushing literary failure, his life was tragically cut short at the age of twenty-five by tuberculosis. On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
is included in most anthologies of Keats's poetry and is available in Complete Poems, Jack Stillinger's edition of Keats's complete works.
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
is a celebration of the Romantic conception of nature. Following its immortal opening line, it deals in simple and beautiful metaphors with the most profound experiences of the human condition.
On one level, the poem is an evocation of the life of the English countryside; yet its insect characters also symbolize the larger spheres of life and death.
Author Biography
Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in London, England. His father, Thomas Keats, ran a successful stable with an attached pub. Thomas died in 1804 in a riding accident, leaving behind his wife, Frances, and their four children: Keats, his two brothers Tom and George, and his sister Fanny. Thomas's estate was sufficient to support his family and to pay for Keats to study at Enfield