ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Agnes is a Romantic narrative poem of 42 Spenserian stanzas set in the Middle Ages. It was written by John Keats in 1819 and published in 1820. The poem was considered by many of Keats’s contemporaries and the succeeding Victorians to be one of his finest and was influential in 19th-century literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats | Poetry Foundation.

Detailed explanation-3: -St Agnes is the patron saint of chastity, girls, engaged couples, rape victims and virgins. One of Keat’s best-loved poems, published in 1820, is called ‘The Eve of St Agnes’ and tells the story of Madeline and her lover Porphyro.

Detailed explanation-4: -His first poem, the sonnet O Solitude, appeared in the Examiner in May 1816, while his collection Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other poems was published in July 1820 before his last visit to Rome.