Keats

American

[keets] / kits /

noun

John, 1795–1821, English poet.

Keats British

/ kiːts /

noun

John. 1795–1821, English poet. His finest poetry is contained in Lamia and other Poems (1820), which includes The Eve of St Agnes, Hyperion, and the odes On a Grecian Urn, To a Nightingale, To Autumn, and To Psyche

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Other Word Forms

Keatsian adjective

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John Keats couldn’t have better described a woman whose love is true, headlong, self-emptying and completely other-directed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Montague's death was announced earlier this week by the Keats Community Library, where he served as president for life.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

Jackson about Romantic literature, which shows that Blake and Austen and Wordsworth and Keats among others were not thought to be the best of the best in their time.

From Salon • May 25, 2024

There are several voice-over versions of the Ezra Jack Keats classic “The Snowy Day”; this is the favorite at our house.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024

In school it was poems I liked best—Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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