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John Keats

John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.
Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers.
The poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. This is typical of romantic poets, as they aimed to accentuate extreme emotion through the emphasis of natural imagery.
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Poems by John Keats

In a Drear-Nighted December

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Meg Merrilies

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on Indolence

Ode on Melancholy

Ode on the Poets

Ode to a Nightingale

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

The Eve of St. Agnes

The Human Seasons

The Mermaid Tavern

The Realm of Fancy

To Autumn

To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent

When I have fears that I may cease to be