ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795, the eldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats’s four children. Although he died at the age of twenty-five, Keats had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. He published only fifty-four poems, in three slim volumes and a few magazines.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Keats, (born October 31, 1795, London, England-died February 23, 1821, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend.

Detailed explanation-3: -Keats wrote 150 poems, but those upon which his reputation rests were written in the span of nine months, from January to September 1819. This intense flowering of talent remains unparalleled in literary history. Keats published three books of verse in his lifetime.

Detailed explanation-4: -Keats penned the letters between 1815 and 1821, the year he died, at the age of 25.