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John Keats
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To his sightThe husk of natural objects opens quiteTo the core; and every secret essence thereReveals the elements of good and fair; Making him see, where Learning hath no light.
— "The Poet", London Magazine (October 1821)
John Keats
English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
- Fame79.9
- Momentum10.0
- United Kingdom rank#129
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- Fame79.9
- Momentum10.0
- United Kingdom rank#129
- Writers rank#97
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Lived 1795–1821, aged 26United Kingdom
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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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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" b…
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John Keats
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
— Epitaph for himself (1821)
John Keats
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My chest of books divide amongst my friends.
— Last will and testament (1821)
John Keats
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None can usurp this height...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.
— "The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream" (1819), Canto I, l. 147
John Keats
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The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast.
— Sonnet "The Day is Gone" (wr. 1819; pub. 1848)
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