John Keats

One of the most distinctive periods in English poetry was the age of Romanticism, a movement which rebelled against the neoclassical forms and celebrated the imagination as a spiritual force. John Keats was a prominent shaper of this new movement, and as such, he was not without his critics. “I think I shall be among the English poets after my death,” he soberly prophesied. Indeed, in 1821 Keats suffered an early tragic death from tuberculosis...

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