John Keats

John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work was the subject of constant critical attacks, and it was not until much later that the significance of the cultural change which his work both presaged and helped to form was fully appreciated. Keats's poetry is characterized by an exuberant love of the language and a rich, sensuous imagination; he often felt that he was working in the shadow of past poets, and only towards the end of his life was he able to produce his most original and most memorable poems.

Major works

• On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (1816)
• Sleep and Poetry (1816)
• (1817)
• Hyperion (1818)
• The Eve of St. Agnes (1819)
• Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art (1819)
• (1819)
• Ode to Psyche (1819)
• Ode to a Nightingale (1819)
• Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819) text
• Ode on Melancholy (1819)
• Ode on Indolence (1819)
• Lamia (1819)
• To Autumn (1819) text
• (1819)
• When I have fears that I may cease to be