john keats

     

In "Endymion" he wrote, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"

Trivia about john keats

  • "Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!" wrote this poet in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
  • This romantic poet who died at 25 wrote a sonnet praising George Chapman's Homer translation
  • The 1816 sonnet "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" was the first mature poem by this ode poet
  • His "Ode on a Grecian Urn" gave us the line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
  • "The Human Seasons" is a sonnet by this consumptive English romantic poet
  • Poet born October 31, 1795; his parents may have found him "a joy forever"
  • His "Ode To A Nightingale" says, "With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, and purple-stained mouth"
  • This English poet's "Ode On Indolence" wasn't published until after his death
  • The first line of this poet's "Endymion" is "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"
  • This English romantic poet who died at 25 wrote the sonnet "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
  • You won't find the remains of this British poet in a Grecian urn but in Rome's Protestant Cemetery
  • In "Ode on a Grecian Urn" he asked, "What men or gods are these?"
  • In 1819 he wrote an ode "To Autumn"
  • In 1819 this English poet wrote, "St. Agnes' Eve -- ah, bitter chill it was!"
  • Buried in Rome, this poet wrote as his own epitaph, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water"
  • This ode poet wrote about a knight enthralled by a beautiful lady in "La Belle Dame sans Merci"
  • English poet who wrote "Endymion","Hyperion", and its unfinished revision, "The Fall of Hyperion"
  • The building near Rome's Spanish Steps where this English romantic poet died in 1821 is now a memorial & library
  • He dedicated his "Endymion" to Thomas Chatterton, a poet who killed himself at the age of 17
  • "...Here lies one whose name was writ in water"
  • This romantic poet was only 25 when he died in Italy of tuberculosis in 1821