John Keats is considered one of the greatest poets of the Romantic era alongside William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Photograph by Usher Gallery, Bridgeman Images Who were the Romantics?

Keats was one of the pillars of British Romanticism, and a romantic figure in other ways as well. He was only 25 when he died, in 1821, of tuberculosis and also — according to legend — of the ...

Before turning to poetry, Keats studied medicine. His own illness would thwart his ambitions in literature and in love. In 1820, he decamped to Rome after doctors recommended a change in climate ...

At St Anthony’s School for Boys' in Hampstead, as part of our ongoing series of assembly talks on famous Hampstead residents, English teacher Claudia gave a talk on the romantic poet John Keats ...

A visitor reads at the garden of Keats House in London, Britain, April 16, 2025. English romantic poet John Keats lived at Keats House from 1818 to 1820, and the house is now a museum dedicated to ...