Romantic Sparks across a Century:A Study of Keats's Influence on Fitzgerald——Based on Jonathan Bate's Bright Star,Green Light
Numerous studies have revealed the influence of the 19th-century Romantic poet John Keats on the prominent 20th-century writer F.Scott Fitzgerald.Keats's presence and style frequently appear in Fitzgerald's letters and works,and they both have written a beautiful chapter in the history of Eng-lish literature.Jonathan Bate's book,Bright star,green light:the beautiful works and damned lives of John Keats and F.Scott Fitzgerald,integrates biography with literary influence studies,vividly portraying the tragic circumstances of Keats and Fitzgerald's lives and the aesthetic resonance in their souls and reveals the profound connection between the two writers and their works.It depicts the life path and ideological inheritance of the two romantics across a hundred years of time and space for read-ers.