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John Keats

1795 - 1821

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John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along 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. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1888 described his "Ode to a Nightingale" as "one of the final masterpieces". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Keats is the 357th most popular writer (up from 419th in 2019), the 338th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 300th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Writer.

John Keats is most famous for his poetry, particularly his sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."

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Among writers, John Keats ranks 357 out of 7,302. Before him are Peter Drucker, Roald Dahl, Luqman, Giorgos Seferis, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and O. Henry. After him are Jane Hawking, Zosimus, Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Pierre Beaumarchais, Ivanka Trump, and Arthur Schnitzler.

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Among people born in 1795, John Keats ranks 4. Before him are James K. Polk, Frederick William IV of Prussia, and Leopold von Ranke. After him are Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Thomas Carlyle, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Rowland Hill, Gabriel Lamé, and Antonio José de Sucre. Among people deceased in 1821, John Keats ranks 2. Before him is Napoleon. After him are Joseph de Maistre, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Caroline of Brunswick, Franz Karl Achard, John William Polidori, William I, Elector of Hesse, Gregory V of Constantinople, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Tudor Vladimirescu, and Johann Jacob Schweppe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Keats ranks 338 out of 8,785. Before him are Claude Auchinleck (1884), John Herschel (1792), Roald Dahl (1916), Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), and Benjamin Disraeli (1804). After him are Bede (672), John Davis (1550), Jane Hawking (1944), Frederick Sanger (1918), Keith Richards (1943), and Tony Blair (1953).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Keats ranks 33. Before him are J. K. Rowling (1965), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Anne Brontë (1820), William Golding (1911), and Roald Dahl (1916). After him are Jane Hawking (1944), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), Christopher Marlowe (1564), William Wordsworth (1770), Graham Greene (1904), and John Galsworthy (1867).

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