ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Keats (October 31, 1795– February 23, 1821) was an English Romantic poet of the second generation, alongside Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Keats belonged to the Romantic literary movement. Romanticism became prominent in England around the beginning of the 19th century and lasted until approximately 1850, placing Keats’ years of publication at the beginning of the Romantic movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Keats is one of greatest Romantic poets, best known for works such as ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’.

Detailed explanation-5: -Time meant Shelley and Keats to be allied, poetic incarnations of the same second-generation British Romantic Zeitgeist. Born three years apart, Shelley in August 1792, Keats in October 1795, they died in consecutive years, Keats in February 1821 and Shelley in July 1822.