John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) 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 tuberculosis at the age of 25. John Keats Biography John Keats was an influential Romantic poet, who has become one of the most widely respected and loved British poets. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” – John Keats , Ode on a Grecian Urn. Short Bio John Keats John Keats was born 31 October 1795 in Central London. His parents were middle class but didn’t have the funds to send him to a top public school. Instead, Keats was sent to John Clarke’s school in ... Although he died at the age of twenty-five, Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines. John Keats (1795–1821) wrote lyric poems, such as ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn,’ that are notable for their vivid imagery and philosophical aspirations.
