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

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Keats

Wilson and Noth also share 6-year-old son Keats.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

It is all a far cry from when, in 1818, John Keats wrote: "It is impossible to live in a country which is continually under hatches… Rain! Rain! Rain!"

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

I turn around and coming down the walk toward me is Jackson Keats.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland