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John Keats

The English Romantic poet John Keats (1795 – 1821) died at twenty-five years of age, with his poems in publication for only the final four years of his life. Yet, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley he has become one of the most important romantic poets and one of the most admired English poets. As so often happened, Keats received an uneven and lukewarm response from the critics of his day, and it was history that elevated his work to the stature it now enjoys.
As a Romantic poet, Keats attempted to evoke a strong emotional reaction through the use of sensual and natural imagery. He is especially noted and esteemed for a series of odes including Ode On A Grecian Urn, Ode To A Nightingale, and Ode On Melancholy.

Poems

  • Acrostic : Georgiana Augusta Keats
  • Addressed To Haydon
  • A Draught Of Sunshine
  • A Galloway Song
  • An Extempore
  • Answer To A Sonnet
  • A Party of Lovers
  • A Prophecy: To George Keats In America
  • Asleep! O Sleep A Little While, White Pearl!
  • A Song About Myself
  • A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever
  • Ben Nevis : A Dialogue
  • Calidore: A Fragment
  • Character Of Charles Brown
  • Dawlish Fair
  • Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq.
  • Endymion: Book I
  • Endymion: Book II
  • Endymion: Book III
  • Endymion: Book IV
  • Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds
  • Epistle To My Brother George
  • Extracts From An Opera
  • Faery Songs
  • Fancy
  • Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl
  • Fragment: Modern Love
  • Fragment Of An Ode To Maia. Written On May Day 1818
  • Fragment Of “The Castle Builder.”
  • Fragment: Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow
  • Fragment: Where’s The Poet?
  • Give Me Women, Wine, And Snuff
  • Hither, Hither, Love
  • Hymn To Apollo
  • Hyperion, A Vision : Attempted Reconstruction Of The Poem
  • Hyperion. Book I
  • Hyperion. Book II
  • Hyperion. Book III
  • Imitation Of Spenser
  • Isabella; or, The Pot Of Basil
  • I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill
  • La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  • Lamia
  • Le Belle Dame Sans Merci
  • Lines
  • Lines On Seeing A Lock Of Milton’s Hair
  • Lines On The Mermaid Tavern
  • Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford
  • Lines To Fanny
  • Lines Written In The Highlands After A Visit To Burns’s Country
  • Meg Merrilies
  • Ode
  • Ode on a Grecian Urn
  • Ode On Indolence
  • Ode On Melancholy
  • Ode to a Nightingale
  • Ode To Apollo
  • Ode To Autumn
  • Ode To Fanny
  • Ode To Psyche
  • On A Dream
  • On Death
  • On Hearing The Bag-Pipe And Seeing “The Stranger” Played At Inverary
  • On Receiving A Curious Shell
  • On The Grasshopper and Cricket
  • On Visiting The Tomb Of Burns
  • Robin Hood
  • Sharing Eve’s Apple
  • Sleep And Poetry
  • Song: Hush, Hush! Tread Softly!
  • Song. I Had A Dove
  • Song Of Four Fairies
  • Song: Written On A Blank Page In Beaumont And Fletcher’s Works
  • Sonnet: A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode Of Paulo And Francesca
  • Sonnet: After Dark Vapors Have Oppress’d Our Plains
  • Sonnet: As From The Darkening Gloom A Silver Dove
  • Sonnet: If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d
  • Sonnet III: Written On The Day That Mr Leigh Hunt Left Prison
  • Sonnet II: To —-
  • Sonnet I: To My Brother George
  • Sonnet IV: How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time!
  • Sonnet IX: Keen, Fitful Gusts Are
  • Sonnet: Oh! How I Love, On A Fair Summer’s Eve
  • Sonnet: On A Picture Of Leander.
  • Sonnet: On Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini.’
  • Sonnet: On The Sea
  • Sonnet: The Day Is Gone
  • Sonnet: The Human Seasons
  • Sonnet: To A Lady Seen For A Few Moments At Vauxhall
  • Sonnet: To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown
  • Sonnet To Byron
  • Sonnet To Chatterton
  • Sonnet To George Keats: Written In Sickness
  • Sonnet To Homer
  • Sonnet To John Hamilton Reynolds
  • Sonnet To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat
  • Sonnet To Sleep
  • Sonnet To Spenser
  • Sonnet To The Nile
  • Sonnet VIII: To My Brothers
  • Sonnet VII: To Solitude
  • Sonnet VI: To G. A. W.
  • Sonnet V: To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses
  • Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
  • Sonnet: Why Did I Laugh Tonight?
  • Sonnet: Written Before Re-Read King Lear
  • Sonnet: Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds
  • Sonnet: Written In Disgust Of Vulgar Superstition
  • Sonnet: Written On A Blank Page In Shakespeare’s Poems, Facing ‘A Lover’s Complaint’
  • Sonnet: Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of ‘The Floure And The Lefe’
  • Sonnet: Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis
  • Sonnet XIII: Addressed To Haydon
  • Sonnet XII: On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour
  • Sonnet XI: On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
  • Sonnet XIV: Addressed To The Same (Haydon)
  • Sonnet X: To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent
  • Sonnet XVII: Happy Is England
  • Sonnet XVI: To Kosciusko
  • Sonnet XV: On The Grasshopper And Cricket
  • Specimen Of An Induction To A Poem
  • Spenserian Stanzas On Charles Armitage Brown
  • Spenserian Stanza: Written At The Close Of Canto II, Book V, Of “The Faerie Queene”
  • Staffa
  • Stanzas: In A Drear-Nighted December
  • Stanzas To Miss Wylie
  • Teignmouth: “Some Doggerel,” Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon
  • The Cap And Bells; Or, The Jealousies: A Faery Tale – Unfinished.
  • The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon
  • The Eve Of Saint Mark. A Fragment
  • The Eve Of St. Agnes
  • The Gadfly
  • The Pot Of Basil; or, Isabella
  • This Living Hand
  • To Ailsa Rock
  • To Autumn
  • To Charles Cowden Clarke
  • To Emma
  • To Fanny
  • To George Felton Mathew
  • To Hope
  • To Some Ladies
  • Translated From A Sonnet Of Ronsard
  • Two Or Three
  • Two Sonnets On Fame
  • Two Sonnets: To Haydon, With A Sonnet Written On Seeing The Elgin Marbles
  • What The Thrush Said. Lines From A Letter To John Hamilton Reynolds
  • Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain
  • Written In The Cottage Where Burns Was Born