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Also known as Adonaïs, Adonais

English Romantic poet (1795–1821)

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John Keats was an English Romantic poet who lived from 1795 to 1821 and created influential works during the early 19th century literary movement. He matters because his poetry, though produced during a relatively short life, became central to Romantic literature and continues to be widely read and studied today.

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Born
31 October 1795
Died
23 February 1821
Works
501

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  • Poems by John Keats
  • The odes of John Keats
  • Selected poems
  • Ode to a nightingale, La belle dame sans merci
  • The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1795
Active to
1821
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John Keats (pronounced /ˈkiːts/; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was the last born of the English Romantic poets and, at 25, the youngest to die. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death. During his life, his poems were not generally well received by critics; however <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Keats">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.
  • My spirit is too weak — mortalityWeighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,And each imagin'd pinnacle and steepOf godlike hardship tells me I must dieLike a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
  • In drear-nighted December,Too happy, happy tree,Thy branches ne'er rememberTheir green felicity.
  • But were there ever anyWrith'd not of passed joy?The feel of not to feel it,When there is none to heal it,Nor numbed sense to steel it,Was never said in rhyme.
  • It keeps eternal whisperings aroundDesolate shores, and with its mighty swellGluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spellOf Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.
  • Shed no tear! O shed no tear!The flower will bloom another year.Weep no more! O weep no more!Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

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1795-10-31
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1821-02-23
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John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1888 described his "Ode to a Nightingale" as "one of the final masterpieces".

Keats had a style "heavily loaded with sensualities", notably in the series of odes. As was typical of the Romantics, he accentuated extreme emotion through natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature – in particular "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Sleep and Poetry" and the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". Jorge Luis Borges named his first time reading Keats an experience he felt all his life.

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