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Keats

American

[keets] / kits /

noun

John, 1795–1821, English poet.

Keats British

/ kiːts /

noun

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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Keatsian

adjective

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Keats perished at 25, Shelley at 29 and Byron at 36.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 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

Jackson about Romantic literature, which shows that Blake and Austen and Wordsworth and Keats among others were not thought to be the best of the best in their time.

From Salon • May 25, 2024

There are several voice-over versions of the Ezra Jack Keats classic “The Snowy Day”; this is the favorite at our house.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2024

And so did Keats, Shakespeare and Petrarch, and all the rest, and it was in The Romaunt of the Rose.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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