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It is well known that the Pre-Raphaelites was deeply influenced by the poems of Alfred Tennyson. They used his poems as their motifs in their paintings such as “The Lady of Shalott” and “Mariana.” This essay, however, focuses on John Keats’s influence on them, which is relatively less studied by scholars. My point is that especially the early Pre-Raphaelitism is greatly affected by Keats’s notion of imagination. He emphasized the significant role of the room for imagination in reading poems. In other words, instead of giving detailed descriptions, good poems should create vacant space that should be filled by the imagination of readers. Likewise, Pre-Raphaelites refused to follow the traditional techniques taught by the Royal Academy and emphasized the role of imagination in reading paintings. For instance, Isabella and Lorenzo, which is the outcome of John Millais's acceptance of Keats, is a kind of ‘montage' which does not give detailed description, but instead, asks observers to use imagination to understand his artistic will and personal conflict, in comparison with the traditional works that were expressed under arranged chiaroscuro and composition based on the academy custom of a mythic subject.
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Pre-Raphaelitism, John Keats, John Everett Millais, imagination, Royal Academy, Isabella and Lorenzo
