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Keats

American  
[keets] / kits /

noun

  1. John, 1795–1821, English poet.


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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Yeats, in 1963; later works include well-regarded studies of Wallace Stevens and John Keats.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

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 Dec. 4, 2024

Another who is set to play, Duke Keats, said the movement also served as a reminder of how "diverse and rich the city is".

From BBC Nov. 8, 2024

What I do know is that there's a really interesting story there that's comparable in its interest and complexity to the story of The Beatles, John Keats, William Blake and Bob Dylan.

From Salon May 25, 2024

“The poet Keats said it first. Dr. Malone knows. It’s how I read the alethiometer. It’s how you use the knife, isn’t it?”

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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