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John Keats, (born October 31, 1795, London, England—died February 23, 1821, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend.

John Keats. 1795–1821. Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton. John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795, the eldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats’s four children. Although he died at the age of twenty-five, Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet.

A revered English poet whose short life spanned just 25 years, John Keats was born October 31, 1795, in London, England. He was the oldest of Thomas and Frances Keats’ four children. Keats...

John Keats (October 31, 1795– February 23, 1821) was an English Romantic poet of the second generation, alongside Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He is best known for his odes, including "Ode to a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale," and his long form poem Endymion.

John Keats (born October 31, 1795 – died February 23, 1821) began life as the son of a stable-owner, and ended it as an unmarried, poor and tuberculosis-ridden young man. Somewhere along the way, he managed to become one of the most beloved poets of the English language and a perfect example of Romanticism.

If the poet John Keats—fresh, fainting, convulsed by illness for much of his short life—could speak to us from beyond the grave, what would he say? More to the point, how would he say it? Keats...

John Keats was born in London on the October 31, 1795 to a hostler and his wife. His father died when Keats was eight, and his mother when he was fourteen. Soon after his mother’s death, Keats began an apprenticeship with a neighboring doctor, and in 1815 started formal medical training at Guy’s Hospital.

Home Literature Poetry Poets A-K John Keats Listen to article The year 1819 Keats had written “ Isabella ,” an adaptation of the story of the Pot of Basil in Giovanni Boccaccio ’s Decameron, in 1817–18, soon after the completion of Endymion, and again he was dissatisfied with his work.