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A selection of Keats's greatest poems

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he... Read Full Overview

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in the midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man to whom thou say'st "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Bloomsbury Poetry Classics are selections from the work... Read Full Overview

"An 'ignorant and unsettled pretender' to culture and a 'bantling' who has 'already learned to lisp sedition'." It was in these terms that the Tory Blackwood's Magazine reviled Keats's poetry in 1818. This is not to imply that Keats (1795-1821) was, like Shelley, a political... Read Full Overview

One of the most distinctive periods in poetry occurred in England early in the 1800s. This is now referred to as 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... Read Full Overview