John Keats
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.
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Background
- Born in
- London
- Educated at
- King's College London
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Trending topics shown first"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 contain."
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
"I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could di…"
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
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1795
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Birth1821
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