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John Keats

English Romantic poet (1795-1821) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 25

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He died at 25 with barely four years of published work behind him, indifferently received. Then the century turned him into a cornerstone of English literature - the odes, the letters, the sensualities compressed into lines that poets have been measuring themselves against ever since.

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1821Died23 February 1821“To his sight / The husk of natural objects opens quite / To the core; and every secret essence there / Reveals the elements of good and fair;”In their wordsOctober 1821"The Poet", London Magazine (October 1821)

“My chest of books divide amongst my friends.”In their wordsLast will and testament (1821)

1819“The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! / Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast.”In their wordsSonnet "The Day is Gone" (wr. 1819; pub. 1848)

1818“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.”In their words"Faery Songs", I (1818)

1817“It keeps eternal whisperings around / Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell / Gluts twice ten thousand Caverns, till the spell / Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.”In their words"On the Sea" (1817)

1815“Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, / And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.”In their wordsNovember 1815"To George Felton Mathew" (November 1815)

1795Born31 October 1795

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  1. To his sight / The husk of natural objects opens quite / To the core; and every secret essence there / Reveals the elements of good and fair;

    Oct 1821, "The Poet", London Magazine (October 1821), Own words

  2. Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

    1821, Epitaph for himself (1821), Own words

  3. My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

    1821, Last will and testament (1821), Own words

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About this person

John Keats was born 31 October 1795 and died of tuberculosis 23 February 1821, his poems in print less than four years. The work arrived to shrugs. But after his death, the reputation caught fire: by century's end, the Encyclopædia Britannica called "Ode to a Nightingale" one of the final masterpieces, and he'd been locked into the canon. The style was Romantic in full - extreme emotion through natural imagery, heavily loaded with sensualities - and the odes, the sonnets like "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", the medievalist pieces "La Belle Dame sans Merci" and "The Eve of St. Agnes" became a engine for the Pre-Raphaelites, shaping Rossetti, Swinburne, Morris. Jorge Luis Borges said reading Keats the first time was an experience he felt all his life.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1795 to 1821 · aged 25

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