John Keats and the Individual - Soul Making How does Keats explore the concept of the individual through his writing?

John Keats led a short and sorrowful life marked by great anguish, unrequited love, and palpable poetic failure. Nevertheless and perhaps on account of this, he has since become possibly the most remarkable and resounding poet of the Romantic era. The history of Keats's life is often difficult to separate from his poems and correspondences as his personal tragedies echo so loudly from many pieces of his work, but it is this personal drive which …

…optimism due to his own fits of melancholy, neither was he to see the fruits of his labour in his lifetime. It is through his exploration of the concept of the individual that he remains immortal in the vision of his reader who no longer reaches for unnatural escapism but flying as his nightingale, 'viewless on the wings of poesy', forever we are making our way through the world, forever we are making our souls.