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Keats, John (1795-1821), English poet and letter writer whose work carried the Romantic movement in England to rich maturity. Despite his tragically early death at the age of 25, Keats composed poetry of great power and beauty in a surprisingly wide variety of kinds: a fragmentary epic, Hyperion; several romances, including Endymion and The Eve of St. Agnes; and a miscellany of shorter lyrics, of which the best known are the sonnets and a series of major odes, including "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "To Autumn." Keats's famous letters record the growth of his art and thought in vivid and moving detail.

Keats's literary influence has been extensive; among later writers who admired and imitated his work were Tennyson, Browning, and Yeats. Although Keats has been categorized as a "poet's poet," whose dedication to art overrode all other considerations, moral, political, and religious, a truer portrait would stress his moral centrality and his balanced good......

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