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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 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

“You put the water back in, and fish return quickly,” Keats said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

And so did Keats, Shakespeare and Petrarch, and all the rest, and it was in The Romaunt of the Rose.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan