Romantic poet John Keats is best known for his odes, epics and sonnets. But in his short lifetime he also wrote dozens of letters to siblings and friends, which are now surfacing together online ...

Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

Did the English Romantic poet John Keats steal bodies from graves? A closer look at some of the 19th-Century writer’s most revered works, including his famous odes composed 200 years ago in the ...

Keats’s eminently quotable poetry (“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”; “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”) has of course not been forgotten at all but is studied throughout the English- ...

Today marks the bicentennial of the birth of the English poet John Keats (1795-1821). Today is also Halloween, though it is not observed in England, where Keats lived. Even if it were, Keats would … ...

Despite such sniping, Keats’ poetry improved with each passing month. Unfortunately by 1820, Keats began to experience shortness of breath and lung hemorrhages, a result of his tuberculosis.

What Keats puts into verse, he was forever writing about to his friends, and many a hard passage in the poetry is made understandable through some lucid unpremeditated utterance in prose.