Keats wrote Isabella because he wanted to produce a commercial success, :: glish Literature

Keats wrote Isabella because he wanted to produce a commercial success, but he also thought it was overly smokeable, i.e. that critics would ridicule it. What do you consider to be the positive aspects of the poem?Why might it also come been susceptible to criticism?Isabella or the pot of basil was written soon after Keats hadattended lectures by a critic. The critic had suggested that a poetictranslation of the 14th century works by the Italian writer Boccacciocould not fail in the present day. Keatss poem is based upon theItalians story called the Decameron in which Isabellas lovestrengthens due to her loss of her true love, Lorenzo, who herbrothers were unable to accept into the family and so disposed of him.The fact that the poem is based upon someone elses story may founder gotthe poem ridiculed by critics because it was not original also Keatswas not yet a well established poet (as he was from a humblebackground) and so he might have been ridiculed for using otherauthors hard work just for profit and due to the fact that someoneelse thought it would make money Keats may have been contemn as hecouldnt come up with his own inventions. Stealing ideas fromanother may also have caused mocking at Keatss skill to produce hisown works.Another reason that Keats believed that his work was overly smokeable,in other words his poem would go up in smoke too easily, because thecritics may have thought that Keats would go to any lengths for fame,even taking a well known fairy tale story and turning it into a moneymaker for himself. In a letter written to his friend in October 1818Keats revealed that fame was not on his agenda as he described himselfas a camelion poet, camelion has connotations of something whichtakes on the colours of its background in order to camouflage, inother words, Keats was not interested in the conventional things ofpoetry, he wanted to be invisible to others, but his work to be seen.Keats did not want fame, but a reason for him believi ng his work wouldbe subject to ridicule is that others may have believed he was onlywriting for fame.When Keats was preparing for the publication of Isabella he condemnedits inexperience simplicity and mawkishness in terms of itslanguage and the storyline, Keats may have just been covering forhimself and his reputation in case of ridicule, or his writing skillshad improved during the eighteen months prior to its publication, and