John Keats

John Keats (October 31st 1795 – February 23rd 1821) died young at 25, but in his short career produced poetry that has made him one of the most studied figures in the English canon. His name is synonymous with “poet” and he is often characterized as the a creator of “silken phrase & silver tongue” (a phrase from his own letters). Perhaps his most famous works are his “Great Odes”.

Keats is considered one of the primary Romantic poets along with William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.