WORDS FROM A GREAT MIND

John Keats

Romantic poet

Born: 31 October 1795
Died: 23 February 1821
Lived in: London, Hampstead, the Isle of Wight & Rome

John Keats was an English Romantic poet whose odes and narrative poems joined sensuous imagery with questions about beauty, mortality, imagination, and truth. His major work was written in only a few intense years before tuberculosis ended his life at twenty-five.

A LESSER-KNOWN DETAIL

Before committing himself to poetry, Keats trained in medicine and qualified as an apothecary. He worked in London hospitals and was licensed to practise, but chose verse over surgery.

Words by John Keats

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.”

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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”

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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

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