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

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Keats

Later his encouragement helped guide the careers of John Keats, Percy Shelley and Alfred Tennyson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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

I’d spent the past four years locked away in the padded room of college, reading Keats and Eudora Welty and worrying over term papers.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett