Author · United Kingdom · 1795–1821
John Keats
Sensuous line and brave attention; mortality and joy held in bright images.
John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, though his poems were in publication for only four years before he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.
Genres
Poetry
Keats: courage of beauty in 2026
John Keats trusts beauty to tell the truth. Touch, taste, and sound carry thought, and acceptance is won without despair. The poems teach how to look and how to stay with what is passing. Read him to practice tenderness with courage and to feel language become a living thing.
