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Dec 22, 2017 · A selection of Keats' shorter poems that reflect his genius and range, from odes to sonnets, from nature to art. Read excerpts and analysis of his most famous works, such as "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "To Lord Byron".
Mar 20, 2017 · Keats argues that looking upon pleasurable things and reflecting that they will soon die will, surprisingly, cheer us up: it is like an injunction to ‘live each day as if it were your last’, and stop moping about (though admittedly Keats’s way of putting it is considerably more poetical).
Beyond his precise sense of the difficulties presented him in his own literary-historical moment, he developed with unparalleled rapidity, in a relative handful of extraordinary poems, a rich, powerful, and exactly controlled poetic style that ranks Keats, with the William Shakespeare of the sonnets, as one of the greatest lyric poets in English.
Explore 30+ poems by John Keats, a key English Romantic poet who died young. Learn about his themes, emotions, topics, forms, genres, and biography.
Keats's poetry is characterized by its sensuous imagery, exploration of beauty and mortality, and a mastery of language that influenced generations of poets. Writing during a period of great social and political change, Keats's work reflects the Romantic movement's fascination with nature, emotion, and the individual's experience.
Read the full text of Keats's famous ode to the nightingale, a poem that expresses his longing for death and immortality. The poem explores the themes of nature, beauty, love, and poetry through the voice of the bird.
Read the full text of Keats's ode to the harvest season, celebrating its beauty, bounty and melancholy. Learn about the poem's context, themes, symbols and influences with the Poem Guide.
