John Keats Poetry
Although poet John Keats wrote only 54 poems before he died at the age of 25, he is remembered as one of the outstanding English Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Poems by John Keats
Period: English Romanticism
Poet John Keats by sculptor Vincent Gray.
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” was written in May 1819 and published anonymously in the January 1820, Number 15 issue of the magazine, Annals of the Fine Arts.
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
John Keats (1795-1821), English poet, was born on the 29th or 31st of October 1795 at the sign of the Swan and Hoop, 24 The Pavement, Moorfields, London. He published his first volume of verse in 1817, his second in the following year, his third in 1820, and died of consumption at Rome on the 23rd of February 1821 in the fourth month of his twenty-sixth year. READ MORE . . .
If you enjoy Keats poetry, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats is a nice volume of all his poetic works (affiliate link, of course).
