POET
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
BIOGRAPHY
John Keats (1795-1821) was born in London, where he was raised by a merchant after both his parents died when he was a teenager. Before Keats’s tragically early death at age 25, he was already celebrated as one of the prominent Romantic poets. He produced some of the most memorable poems of his time, including “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and the epic “Hyperion.”
POEMS
"I cry your mercy-pity-love! -aye, love!"
"The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!"
"This living hand, now warm and capable"
Bright Star, Would I were Steadfast as Thou Art
If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
POETICS ESSAYS
AUDIO
Poetry Off the Shelf
Fact-Checking John Keats
Did the young poetic genius know his history? Who cares if he didn't?
Audio Poems
To Autumn
John Keats (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
ARTICLES ABOUT JOHN KEATS
A Trenta-Sei of the Pleasure We Take in the Early Death of Keats
by John Ciardi
