John Keats
English poet
Date of Birth | : | 31 Oct, 1995 |
Date of Death | : | 23 Feb, 1821 |
Place of Birth | : | Moorgate, London, United Kingdom |
Profession | : | English Poet |
Nationality | : | English |
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 tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.[1] By the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1888 called one ode "one of the final masterpieces".
Keats had a style "heavily loaded with sensualities", notably in the series of odes. Typically of the Romantics, he accentuated extreme emotion through 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 all his life.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
I don't need the stars in the night I found my treasure All I need is you by my side so shine forever
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
All writing is a form of prayer.
I have so much of you in my heart.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.