John Keats
John Keats (/ˈkiːts/ 31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.
Although his poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.
The poetry of Keats is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably in the series of odes. This is typical of romantic poets, as they aimed to accentuate extreme emotion through the emphasis of natural imagery. Today his poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analysed in English literature.
John Keats (writer)
John Keats (1921 – November 3, 2000) was an American writer and biographer.
Biography
Keats was born in Moultrie, Georgia. He attended the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania before serving in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II.
Keats worked for the Washington Daily News in the 1950s. His debut as an author came in 1956 with The Crack in the Picture Window, a broadside at sprawling suburban housing developments. He also wrote numerous magazine articles, which led to non-fiction books and biographies.
In the 1950s, Keats bought "Pine Island", one of the Thousand Islands, as a vacation home for himself, his wife and their three children. However, at the time of his death in 2000, he was living in Kingston, Ontario, where he had moved in order to be close to the island featured in his 1974 book Of Time and an Island.
From 1974 to 1990 Keats taught magazine writing at Syracuse University.
Keats died November 3, 2000, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He was 79.
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- Favourite Poetry released: 2007
Favourite Poetry
Released 2007- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Upon Westminster Bridge
- Daffodils
- Sonnet No.2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow
- Sonnet No.18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day?
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- Corinna's Going A-Upon Maying
- Sonnet No.33: Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen
- Sonnet No.73: That Time of Year You Mayst in Me Behold
- The Apparition
- The Sunne Rising
- Hymne to God: My God in My Sicknesse
- To Jane: The Invitaion
- My True Love Hath My Heart
- Death Be Not Proud
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Born: 1795-10-31
Died: 1821-02-23
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