Keats

American  

[keets] / kits /

noun

1. John, 1795–1821, English poet.

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Keats British  

/ kiːts /

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

Keats perished at 25, Shelley at 29 and Byron at 36.

From The Wall Street Journal

Later his encouragement helped guide the careers of John Keats, Percy Shelley and Alfred Tennyson.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even seasoned poetry readers will experience the thrill of discovering what John Keats called “a new planet.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From BBC

It builds our capacity for what Keats called “negative capability,” a tolerance for “being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

From Los Angeles Times