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- Explicating Poetry: World Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets)
- English and American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Critical Survey of Poetry: Topical Essays)
- Endymion (Masterplots II: Poetry Series)
- Hyperion (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- La Belle Dame sans Merci (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Lamia (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Ode on a Grecian Urn (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Ode on Melancholy (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Ode to a Nightingale (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- Ode to Psyche (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- On the Sonnet (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- When I Have Fears (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- To Autumn (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- The Eve of St. Agnes (Magill Book Reviews)
- Hyperion (Magill Book Reviews)
- Ode on a Grecian Urn (Magill Book Reviews)
- Ode to a Nightingale (Magill Book Reviews)
- Endymion (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Eve of St. Agnes (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Endymion (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- The Letters of John Keats (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
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- Author: John Keats
Biography
John Keats (keets) was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London, where his father managed a livery stable. John, the family’s eldest child, had two brothers, George and Tom, and a sister, Fanny. After the death of their father in 1804 and of their mother in 1810, the children were under the care of guardians. The boys attended school at Enfield, where John became a close friend of Charles Cowden Clarke, the headmaster’s son. Cowden Clarke introduced Keats to Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, which became the inspiration for his own first poetry.
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