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

John Keats couldn’t have better described a woman whose love is true, headlong, self-emptying and completely other-directed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

In 2011, he formed a committee to establish the Keats Community Library charity, writing and performing there with the likes of Palin, Robert Powell, Simon Callow and Janet Suzman.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 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

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

In school it was poems I liked best—Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline