

It also seeks to evidence how John Keats’ fondness for beauty and aspiration for a better life afterwards are sufficient elements which demonstrate how escapist he was.

Secondly, it emphasizes the socio-psychological and philosophical reasons which led John Keats to look for escape. At first, the work introduces the reader into John Keats’ poetry by showing how he explored all poetic styles, from the ode to the sonnet and from the lyric to the epic.

Our analysis starts with a presentation of the poet’s works and ends with the effects of escapism in his poetical conception. This paper examines the issue of escapism in the poetry of John Keats.
