John Keats

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Born	October 31, 1795 • London • England
Died	February 23, 1821 (aged 25) • Rome • Italy • (Anniversary in 2 days)
Notable Works	“Endymion” • “Hyperion” • “Isabella” • “La Belle Dame sans merci” • “Lamia” • “Ode on a Grecian Urn” • “Ode to Psyche” • “Ode to a Nightingale” • “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” • “On Indolence” • “On Melancholy” • “Poems” • “Sleep and Poetry” • “The Eve of St. Agnes” • “The Fall of Hyperion” • “To Autumn”
Movement / Style	Romanticism

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