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John Keats was an English poet who became one of the key poets of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. During his very short life, his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as [[Alfred Tennyson]] has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats' poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. | John Keats was an English poet who became one of the key poets of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. During his very short life, his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as [[Alfred Tennyson]] has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats' poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. | ||
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Life
Born: 31 October 1795
Died: 23 February 1821
Biography
John Keats was an English poet who became one of the key poets of the English Romantic movement during the early nineteenth century. During his very short life, his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats' poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature.
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Settings of text by John Keats
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Jon Corelis)
- Bright star (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)
- Bring me a golden pen (Frederic Hymen Cowen)
- Dove (Michael Gray)
- Folly’s song (Percy Eastman Fletcher)
- In a drear-nighted December (John Pointer)
- Meg Merrilies (Michael Gray)
- Meg Merrilies (Rutland Boughton)
- On first looking into Chapman's Homer (John Kilpatrick)
- On the sea (Angelina Figus)
- Sleep (Maurice Besly)
- A Song of Myself (Michael Gray)
- To Homer (John Kilpatrick)
Publications
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