John Keats
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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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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 31 October 1795
- Died
- 23 February 1821
- Works
- 501
Top works
- Selected poems
- Ode to a nightingale, La belle dame sans merci
- The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats
- Keats e Browning, poesie dall'inglese
- The poetical works of John Keats, with a memoir by James Russell Lowell
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 3,242
- Total plays
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to John Keats, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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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.