Keats went on to study medicine, but abandoned the career in 1816. “He gives it up, I think, because he realises what a good ...

If the poet John Keats—fresh, fainting, convulsed by illness for much of his short life—could speak to us from beyond the grave, what would he say? More to the point, how would he say it? Keats didn’t ...

A dying John Keats wrote to his love Fanny Brawne, “If I should die I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all ...

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John Keats was just 25 when he died in Rome, convinced that his name was “writ in water”. Two centuries later, his words endure: from the aching cadences of Ode to a Nightingale to the mellow ripeness ...

Ezra Jack Keats never finished the autobiography he began writing late in life. After a career creating picture books for children, Keats—born Jacob Ezra Katz—had gone back in memory to the scrappy ...

Today marks the day in 1821 when John Keats, the Romantic poet who waxed on Grecian urns and nightingales, succumbed to tuberculosis. He was only 25. John was thought to have contracted the infection ...

The English poet originally trained in medicine, where he would have encountered bodysnatchers. Kelly Grovier reveals disquieting clues in odes written 200 years ago. Did the English Romantic poet ...

John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic poet on his deathbed with tuberculosis aged 25, sedated with laudanum and opium. Engraving after portrait by Joseph Severn. From "Old and New London: A ...