id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-britannica-com-152 John Keats | Biography, Poems, Odes, Philosophy, Death, & Facts | Britannica .html text/html 1951 182 72 John Keats | Biography, Poems, Odes, Philosophy, Death, & Facts | Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Keats Poetry Foundation Biography of John Keats John Keats, (born October 31, 1795, London, England—died February 23, 1821, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. John Keats was an English Romantic lyric poet whose verse is known for its vivid imagery and great sensuous appeal. All his greatest poetry was written in a single year, 1819: "Lamia," "The Eve of St. Agnes," the great odes ("On Indolence," "On a Grecian Urn," "To Psyche," "To a Nightingale," "On Melancholy," and "To Autumn"), and the two unfinished versions of an epic on Hyperion. John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome in 1821 at the age of 25. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.See all videos for this article ./cache/www-britannica-com-152.html ./txt/www-britannica-com-152.txt