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A Short Biography of John Keats

Author Name:

John Keats

Born As:

John Keats

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Born:

31 Oct 1795

Died:

23 Feb 1821




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Selected Works:

Addressed to Haydon - 1816 - text
Addressed to the Same - 1816 - text
After dark vapours have oppressed our plains - 1817
As from the darkening gloom a silver dove - 1814
Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl! text
A Song About Myself
Bards of Passion and of Mirth text
Before he went to live with owls and bats - 1817?
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art - 1819
Calidore: A Fragment - 1816
The Day Is Gone, And All Its Sweets Are Gone
Dedication. To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode Of Paolo And Francesca text
A Draught of Sunshine
Endymion: A Poetic Romance - 1817
Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds
Epistle to My Brother George
The Eve of Saint Mark
The Eve of St. Agnes - 1819 - text
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream - 1817
Fancy - poem
Fill for me a brimming bowl - 1814 - text
Fragment of an Ode to Maia
Give me women, wine, and snuff - 1815 or 1816
God of the golden bow - 1816 or 1817
The Gothic looks solemn - 1817
Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs - 1815 or 1816
Hadst thou liv’d in days of old - 1816
Happy is England! I could be content - 1816
Harlem Blues - 1817
Hither, hither, love - 1817 or 1818
How many bards gild the lapses of time - 1816
The Human Seasons
Hymn To Apollo
Hyperion - 1818
I am as brisk - 1816
I had a dove
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill - 1816
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
Imitation of Spenser - 1814 - text
In Drear-Nighted December
Isabella or The Pot of Basil - 1818 - text
Keen, fitful gusts are whisp’ring here and there - 1816
La Belle Dame sans Merci - 1819 - text
Lamia - 1819
Lines Written on 29 May, the Anniversary of Charles’s Restoration, on Hearing the Bells Ringing - 1814 or 1815
Lines on Seeing a Lock of Milton's Hair
Lines on The Mermaid Tavern
Meg Merrilies
Modern Love - Keats
O Blush Not So!
O come, dearest Emma! the rose is full blown - 1815
O grant that like to Peter I - 1817?
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell - 1815 or 1816
Ode - Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn - 1819 - text
Ode on Indolence - 1819
Ode on Melancholy - 1819 - text
Ode to a Nightingale - 1819 - text
Ode to Apollo - 1815
Ode to Fanny
Ode to Psyche - 1819
Oh Chatterton! how very sad thy fate - 1815
Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve - 1816
Old Meg - 1818
On a Leander Which Miss Reynolds, My Kind Friend, Gave Me - 1817
On Death
On Fame text
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - 1816 - text
On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour - 1816
On Peace - 1814 - text
On Receiving a Curious Shell, and a Copy of Verses, from the Same Ladies - 1815
On Receiving a Laurel Crown from Leigh Hunt - 1816 or 1817
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles - 1817
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
On the Grasshopper and Cricket - 1816
On the Sea - 1817 - text
On The Story of Rimini - 1817
On The Sonnet
The Poet - a fragment
A Prophecy - To George Keats in America
Robin Hood. To A Friend
Sharing Eve's Apple
Sleep and Poetry - 1816
A Song of Opposites
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem - 1816
Staffa
Stay, ruby breasted warbler, stay - 1814
Stanzas
Think not of it, sweet one, so - 1817
This Living Hand
This pleasant tale is like a little copse - 1817
To —
To a Cat
To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses - 1816
To a Lady seen for a few Moments at Vauxhall
To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown - 1816 or 1817
To Ailsa Rock
To Autumn - 1819 - text
To Lord Byron - 1814 - text
To Charles Cowden Clarke - 1816
To Fanny
To G.A.W. - Georgiana Augusta Wylie - 1816
To George Felton Mathew - 1815
To Georgiana Augusta Wylie
To Haydon
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles - 1817
To Homer
To Hope - 1815
To John Hamilton Reynolds
To Kosciusko - 1816
To Leigh Hunt, Esq. - 1817
To My Brother George - epistle - 1816
To My Brother George - sonnet - 1816
To My Brothers - 1816
To one who has been long in city pent - 1816
To Sleep
To Solitude
To Some Ladies - 1815
To the Ladies Who Saw Me Crown’d - 1816 or 1817
To the Nile
Two Sonnets on Fame
Unfelt, unheard, unseen - 1817
When I have fears that I may cease to be - 1818 - text
Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid?
Where's the Poet?
Why did I laugh tonight?
Woman! when I behold thee flippant, vain - 1815 or 1816
Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition - 1816
Written on a Blank Space
Written on a Summer Evening
Written on the Day that Mr Leigh Hunt Left Prison - 1815
Written Upon the Top of Ben Nevis
You say you love; but with a voice - 1817 or 1818                          
Mother Frances Jennings
Father Thomas Keats, five children.

John died at the age of 25 years from tuberculosis in Italy.                          
                          
Baptized at St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate.