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Keats

American  
[keets] / kits /

noun

  1. John, 1795–1821, English poet.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Keats Community Library said they were "deeply sad" to announce Montague's death, describing him as a "highly respected actor" who was also "vital to our success".

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

It is not really about the countryside at all; nature is there purely as a metaphor for feelings, as it was for Wordsworth and his daffodils, Shelley with his skylark and Keats with his nightingale.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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