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John Keats
1795–1821
A major voice of English Romantic poetry, he created some of the language’s most loved odes in a career that lasted only a few years. His work is celebrated for its rich imagery, emotional intensity, and deep feeling for beauty, love, and mortality.
8 Audiobooks
Poems 1817
by John Keats
Keats: Poems Published in 1820
by John Keats
Endymion: A Poetic Romance
by John Keats
Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts
by John Keats
Lamia
by John Keats
Runoelmia
by John Keats
Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
by John Keats
About the author
Born in London in 1795, John Keats first trained in medicine and worked as a surgeon’s apprentice before giving himself fully to poetry. He belonged to the second generation of Romantic poets, alongside Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, but his path was strikingly brief: he died in Rome in 1821 at just twenty-five.
Even in that short life, Keats wrote poems that became central to English literature, including Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and To Autumn. His poems are known for their musical language, sensuous detail, and the way they hold joy and sorrow in the same moment.
Keats was not widely celebrated while he was alive, but his reputation grew quickly after his death. Readers now return to him for the intensity of his imagination and for the humane, questioning spirit that runs through both his poetry and his letters.