John Keats
Poet · English · Romantic
John Keats
1795–1821
Negative capability: the courage to remain in uncertainty. His odes are twenty-five-year-old grief wearing gold.
The life
Orphaned early, trained as an apothecary-surgeon, he gave up medicine for poetry and produced nearly all his great work in a single miraculous year. Tuberculosis killed his mother, his brother, then him — at twenty-five, in Rome, asking for a gravestone that read 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'.
The writings
Poem
Poem · 1819
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Ode to a Nightingale
1819 · Ode · Lyric
A bird's song offers oblivion; the word 'forlorn' tolls the poet back.
Poem · 1819
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Ode on a Grecian Urn
1819 · Ode
Figures frozen a moment before consummation.
