Keats, John

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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.

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

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

Keats, John, iv, 159; v, 50, 97; Aubrey Beardsley compared with, vi, 73; Coleridge and, v, 310.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Hubbard, Elbert

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

From The Voice and Spiritual Education by Corson, Hiram

Keats, John, xvi, xxv, xxxvi, xlviii, lviii, 341, 428-9.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

Keats, John: quoted, 92; Ode to a Nightingale, 316; faint, swoon, 405.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell