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English Romantic poet (–)

For the American writer and biographer, see John Keats (writer).

"Keats" redirects here. For other uses, see Keats (disambiguation).

John Keats (31 October – 23 February ) 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 They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.^[1] 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 described his "Ode to a Nightingale" as "one of the final masterpieces".

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Keats had a style "heavily loaded with sensualities", notably in the series of odes. Typically of the Romantics, he accentuated extreme emotion through natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain am