John Keats was an English poet who is now regarded as being one of the greatest lyric poets of his time and one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. He was born in London on October 31, 1795 and in his short lifetime had 54 poems published in various magazines and in three volumes of poetry. Recognition of his achievements as one of the leading poets of his time only came after his death in Rome on February 23, 1821.
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. Go to Quote / Comment
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. Go to Quote / Comment
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain. Go to Quote / Comment
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. Go to Quote / Comment
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. Go to Quote / Comment