John Keats was born in London, October 29, 1795, in the house of his grandfather, who kept a livery stable at Moorfields. He received his education at Enfield, and in his fifteenth year was apprenticed to a surgeon. Most of his time, however, was devoted to the cultivation of his literary talents, which were early conspicuous. During his apprenticeship, he made and carefully wrote out a literal translation of Virgil's Aeneid and instructed himself also in some knowledge of Greek and Italian. One of his earliest friends and critics was Mr. Leigh Hunt,... [more>>>]



Poetry:

• The poetical works of John Keats, reprinted from the original editions, with notes by Francis T. Palgrave. London: Macmillan, 1884. (Bartleby.com);
• "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (Victorian Web);
• "The Eve of St. Agnes" (University of Toronto);
• "Eve of St. Mark" (Victorian Web);
• "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern" (University of Toronto);
• "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (Victorian Web);
• "Ode on Melancholy" (University of Toronto);
• "Ode to a Nightingale" (University of Toronto);
• "Ode to Psyche", annotated (EnglishHistory.net);
• "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (Sonnet Central);
• "To Autumn" (University of Toronto);
• "To Solitude", Keats' first published poem. "...it attracted little public attention, but Keats was sufficiently encouraged to persevere with his writing..." (British Library);
• "Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison" (Bartleby.com);

Prose:

Letters:

• To Fanny Keats, September 10th, 1817 (JohnKeats.com);
• To Leigh Hunt, May 10th, 1817 (JohnKeats.com);
• Previously lost letter of Keats to his brothers, January 30, 1818 (Romantic Circles);
• To Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 16th, 1820 (JohnKeats.com);
• Joseph Severn to Charles Brown, Rome, December 17, 1820 (EnglishHistory.net);
• Joseph Severn to John Taylor, Rome, December 20, 1820 (EnglishHistory.net);
• Joseph Severn to Mrs. Samuel Brawne, Rome, January 11, 1821 (EnglishHistory.net);
• Joseph Severn to William Haslam, Rome, January 15, 1821 (EnglishHistory.net);
• The Last Letter of John Keats, To Charles Brown, Rome, November 30, 1820. My dear Brown -- 'Tis the most difficult thing in the world to me to write a letter.... (Biscayne Bay Review);

Biographical:

• Keats Biography in Chamber's Cyclopedia (1863). His passions were always violent, and his sensibility most keen.... (Biscayne Bay Review);
• "Life of John Keats" by Charles Armitage Brown (EnglishHistory.net Keats Pages);

Essays:

• "A John Keats Letter Rediscovered" by Dearing Lewis (Romantic Circles);
• "After Keats: The Return of Joseph Severn to England in 1838" by Grant F. Scott (Romanticism on the Net);
• "La Belle Dame as a Critical Test Case" by Joe Formichella (Prometheus Unplugged);
• 'The Cockney Politics of Gender -- the Cases of Hunt and Keats' by Ayumi Mizukoshi (Romanticism on the Net);
• 'Dream Lovers and Tragic Romance: Negative Fictions in Keats's Lamia, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Isabella' by Mark Sandy (Romanticism on the Net);
• 'Effeminacy, Masculinity, and Homosocial Bonds: The (Un)Intentional Queering of John Keats' by Caroline E. Kimberly (Romanticism on the Net);
• "The Endgame of Taste: Keats, Sartre, Beckett" by Denise Gigante (Romanticism on the Net);
• "Full-grown lambs": Immaturity and "To Autumn"' by Richard Marggraf Turley (Romanticism on the Net);
• "John Keats and Leigh Hunt" by F. Joseph Byrnes, S. J. (Loyola University);
• John Keats: his medical student years at the United Hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas' 1815-1816 by Arpan K Banerjee (pdf format, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, October 1989);
• "Keats, Teats, and the Fane of Poesy" by Nelson Hilton (fr. Lexis Complexis, University of Georgia);
• 'Poetry as Enforcement: Conquering the Muse in Keats's "Ode to Psyche"' by Kris Steyaert (Romanticism on the Net);

Reviews:

• Endymion by John Keats reviewed by John Gibson Lockhart (EnglishHistory.net, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, August 1818);
• Endymion by John Keats reviewed by John Wilson Croker. Perhaps history's most infamous pan (EnglishHistory.net, The Quarterly Review, April 1818);
• "If I Should Die" by Dana Gioia. A review of Keats by Andrew Motion (Dana Gioia Online);
• John Keats and the Culture of Dissent by Nicholas Roe reviewed by Nicola Trott (Romanticism on the Net);

Images:

• Original Manuscript Images: a collection of the original manuscript images of Keats's poetry and letters (EnglishHistory.net);
• Portrait shortly before his death from tuberculosis in February 1821, by Joseph Severn, Ashley MS 4165, f.v. (National Portrait Gallery);
• Portrait Gallery of the Keats, his family and friends (EnglishHistory.net);
• Silhouette of Keats by Charles Brown (EnglishHistory.net);
• Silhouette of Keats by Marianne Hunt (EnglishHistory.net);

Articles:

• John Keats and the Casina Rosa by Sandra Tarling (Literary Traveler);

Miscellaneous:

• Academy of American Poets Page (Poets.org);
• An Electronic Concordance to Keats's Poetry (Romantic Circle);
• Concordance to the 1819 odes of Keats (University of Dundee);
• Keats-Shelley House (Rome, Italy);
• Keatsian News page (Recent news relating to Keats, EnglishHistory.net);

Other VGS Author Pages:

• Wendell Berry;
• Claudia Emerson (Winner of 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry);
• Thomas Gray;
• Ted Kooser;
• Giacomo Leopardi;
• Federico Garcia Lorca;
• Lisel Mueller (Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry);
• Pablo Neruda; and,
• Percy Bysshe Shelley.