John Keats
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John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tu
Posthumous portrait by William Hilton, c. 1822
Life mask of Keats by Benjamin Haydon, 1816
Wentworth Place, now the Keats House museum (left), Ten Keats Grove (right), Hampstead Heath, London
An ambrotype of Fanny Brawne taken circa 1850 (photograph on glass)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819, first published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819.
John Keats
…natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature – in particular "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Sleep and Poetry" and the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". Jorge Luis Borges named his first time reading Keats an experience he felt…
Tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by Keats
John Keats in 1819, painted by his friend Joseph Severn
First known copy of Ode on a Grecian Urn, transcribed by George Keats in 1820
Raphael's The Sacrifice at Lystra