Summary: <p><strong>John Keats</strong> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">/kiːts/</a>; 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Romantic</a> poet. He was prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lord Byron</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a>, though his poems were in publication for only four years before he died of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tuberculosis</a> at the age of 25.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats#cite_note-Neill418-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a> They were not generally well received by critics in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> By the end of the century he had been placed within the canon of English literature and had become the inspiration for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</a>, with a strong influence on many writers; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Encyclopædia Britannica</em></a> described one ode as "one of the final masterpieces". <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jorge Luis Borges</a> called his first encounter with Keats' work an experience that he felt all of his life.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a> It had a style "heavily loaded with sensualities", notably in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats%27s_1819_odes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">series of odes</a>. It was typical of the Romantics to accentuate extreme emotion through emphasis on natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature. Especially acclaimed are "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_a_Nightingale" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ode to a Nightingale</a>", "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_and_Poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sleep and Poetry</a>" and the famous sonnet "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_First_Looking_into_Chapman%27s_Homer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">On First Looking into Chapman's Homer</a>".</p><br><p>-- Bio via Wikipedia. </p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
