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. By the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1888 described his "Ode to a Nightingale" as "one of the final masterpieces".
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Before becoming a poet, Keats trained as a surgeon and apothecary. He abandoned medicine at 21, telling a friend that poetry was his true calling.
He wrote many of his greatest works — including 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' — in a single extraordinary burst of creativity in 1819.
Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome aged just 25. At his request, his gravestone bears no name, only the inscription: 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.'
He fell deeply in love with his neighbour Fanny Brawne, writing her hundreds of passionate letters, but they never married due to his failing health and lack of funds.
Poems
28 poems- A Thing of Beauty (Endymion)23 lines
- Apollo to the Graces6 lines
- Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher's Tragi-Comedy 'The Fair Maid of the Inn'40 lines
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art14 lines
- Endymion: Book I998 lines
- Endymion: Book II1026 lines
- Endymion: Book III1041 lines
- Endymion: Book IV1010 lines
- Epistle To My Brother George142 lines
- Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff6 lines
- Happy Is England! I Could Be Content14 lines
- Hither, hither, love -24 lines
- Hyperion887 lines
- In Drear-Nighted December24 lines
- Lines Written on 29 May The Anniversary of the Restoration of Charles the 2nd6 lines
- Ode On A Grecian Urn50 lines
- Ode To Autumn33 lines
- On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer14 lines
- Song of the Indian Maid, from 'Endymion'145 lines
- Stanzas24 lines
- Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay32 lines
- To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses14 lines
- To Autumn36 lines
- To Homer14 lines
- To Hope48 lines
- To My Brother George14 lines
- To My Brothers14 lines
- Written On A Summer Evening14 lines