Keats, John

1. A nineteenth-century English poet, one of the leaders of romanticism. His poems include “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” and “Endymion,” which contains the famous line “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” Keats died at the age of twenty-five.

Example Sentences

Keats, John, 338, 347, 348, 349, 356, 357.

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In like manner George Keats,—‘John’s eyes moistened and his lip quivered at the relation of any tale of generosity or benevolence or noble daring, or at sights of loveliness or distress.’

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See Wylie, Georgiana Keats, John, his genius in prose-writing, xi.; his Life by Colvin, xi.,

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Keats, John, quoted on the Popian period of English poetry, note 6.

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Keats, John, foible of, 180; last words of, 295; death of, 257.

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