John Keats vs. Jane Austen
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
John Keats
1795 – 1821
John Keats 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.
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever c…"
Jane Austen
1775 – 1817
Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose six major novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, critically and comically examined the lives and morals of the British landed gentry.
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
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