author
John Keats
1795–1821
A major voice of the English Romantic movement, his poems are loved for their rich imagery, musical language, and deep feeling. Though he died at just 25, works like Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, and To Autumn made him one of the best-known poets in English.
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
Runoelmia
by John Keats
Lamia
by John Keats
Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
by John Keats
About the author
Born in London on October 31, 1795, he first trained in medicine and worked as a surgeon’s apprentice before turning fully to poetry. His writing life was remarkably short, but in only a few years he produced poems that would become central to English literature.
He published three books during his lifetime, including Endymion and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. His greatest work came in 1819, when he wrote the great odes that helped define his reputation for vivid sensory detail, emotional honesty, and reflection on beauty, art, and mortality.
He died in Rome on February 23, 1821, after suffering from tuberculosis. Recognition came more strongly after his death, and he is now widely regarded as one of the finest poets of the Romantic era.