Keats

Definition: Keats

Keats

Noun

1. English Romantic poet (1795-1821).

Date "Keats" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

"Keats" is a common misspelling or typo for: eats.

Specialty Definition: John Keats

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever,

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness. --John Keats, opening quote in book one of "Endymion: A Poetic Romance"

John Keats (October 31, 1795 - February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work was the subject of constant politically motivated critical attack, and it was not until much later that the significance of the cultural change which his work both presaged and helped to form was fully appreciated.
Born on Hallowe'en day, 1795 near London to a stable-keeper and his wife, Keats had a happy childhood for the first part of his life. The beginnings of his troubles occurred in 1803, when his father died from a fractured skull after falling from his horse. His mother remarried soon afterwards, but as quickly left the new husband and moved herself and her children to live with Keats' grandmother. There, Keats attended a school that first instilled in him a love of literature. However, in 1810, his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving him and his siblings in the custody of their grandmother.

His grandmother appointed two guardians to take care of her new charges, and these guardians removed him from his old school to become a surgeon's apprentice. This continued until 1814, when after a fight with his master, he left his apprenticeship and became a student at a local hospital. During that year, he increasingly devoted his time to studies of literature instead of medicine, until he finally joined the literary community entirely.
His introduction to the work of Edmund Spenser, particularly The Faerie Queene was to prove a turning point in Keats' development as a poetic force; it was to inspire Keats to write his first poem, Imitation of Spenser.
He made friends with Leigh Hunt, a fellow writer who helped him publish his first poem in 1816. In 1817, Keats published his first volume of poetry entitled simply Poems.
It should be remembered that the Romantic movement flowered during a period of major catharsis in world history: the American War of Independence and the French Revolution had cast long shadows across the existing world order; existing bourgeois values were being challenged as never before. Romanticism was the very cultural epitome of this rebellion, and its adherents work became the target of critical denigration. Keats' poetry was consequently not well received, and he moved to the Isle of Man.
Working on his writing, he soon found his brother, Tom Keats, entrusted to his care. Tom was, like their mother, suffering from tuberculosis. Finishing his epic poem "Endymion," Keats left to hike in Scotland and Ireland with his friend Charles Brown. However, he too began to show signs of tuberculosis infection on that trip, and returned prematurely. When he did, he found that Tom's condition had deteriorated, and that Endymion had, as had Poems before it, been the target of much abuse from the critics.
In 1818, Tom Keats died from his infection, and John Keats moved again, to live in Brown's house in London. There he met Fanny Brawne, who with her mother had been staying at Brown's house, and he quickly fell in love. The later (posthumous) publication of their correspondence was to scandalise Victorian society.
Keats produced some of his finest poetry during the spring and summer of 1819: Ode to Psyche, Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale.
This relationship was cut short, however, when by 1820 Keats began to show worse signs of the disease that had plagued his family. On the suggestion of his doctors, he left the cold airs of London behind and moved to Italy with his friend Joseph Severn invited by Shelley. For one year, this seemed to help his condition, but his health finally deteriorated. He died on February 23 1821 and was interred in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. His last request was followed, and thus he was buried under a tombstone reading "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Oscar Wilde, the aestheticist non pareil was to later write:

"[..] who but the supreme and perfect artist could have got from a mere colour a motive so full of marvel: and now I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding, grown fond of the sweet comeliness of his charactery, for since my childhood I have loved none better than your marvellous kinsman, that godlike boy, the real Adonis of our age[..] In my heaven he walks eternally with Shakespeare and the Greeks."

Perhaps an even greater tribute to this mercurial and wayward genius is contained within one of the finest works of the poet himself:

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -- John Keats, in Ode on a Grecian Urn

Major Works

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (1816)
Sleep and Poetry (1816)
Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1817)
Hyperion (1818)
The Eve of St. Agnes (1819)
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art (1819)
La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad (1819)
Ode to Psyche (1819)
Ode to a Nightingale (1819)
Ode on a Grecian Urn (1819)
Ode on Melancholy (1819)
Ode on Indolence (1819)
Lamia (1819)
To Autumn (1819)
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (1819)

Themes and Theories

The Mansion of Many Apartments
Negative Capability

External Links

Complete Poetical Works
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "John Keats."

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Synonym: Keats

Synonym: John Keats (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Keats

English words defined with "Keats": Hunt ♦ James Henry Leigh Hunt ♦ Leigh Hunt, lipped. (references)

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Modern Usage: Keats

Domain	Usage
Clever	Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness. (references; author: Keats)
Movie/TV Titles	Keats (1970) La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats (1996) Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date (1985)
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Commercial Usage: Keats

Domain	Title
Books	Nine Great English Poets: Poems by Shakespeare, Keats, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Mrs. Browning, Fitzgerald, Tennyson and Kipling/Boxed Set (reference) Keats's Neighborhood: An Ezra Jack Keats Treasury (reference) Uriel's Eye: Miltonic Stationing and Statuary in Blake, Keats, and Shelley (reference) Companionable Books: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Keats, Wordsworth, Browning, Johnson, Emerson (reference) Daemonic in the Poetry of John Keats (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Keats

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Familiar Quotations: Keats

Author	Quotation
John Keats	I always made an awkward bow.
	Health is my expected heaven.
	My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
	Works of genius are the first things in the world.
	I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
	But let me laugh awhile, I've mickle time to grieve.
	Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
	What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
Keats	Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Keats

"Keats" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.60% of the time. "Keats" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	88.6%	101	32,488
Noun (plural)	11.4%	13	97,576
Total	100.00%	114	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Keats

The following table summarizes the usage of "Keats" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Keats	Last name	200	33,527
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Keats

Expression using "Keats": John Keats. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Keats

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
john keats	278	john keats ode to a nightingale	7
keats	141	poem by keats	6
ezra jack keats	32	john keats quote	6
fenwick keats	23	estate island keats real	6
keats island	21	ceremony keats quote	6
ele keats	20	poem by john keats	5
keats poetry	19	john keats and la belle dame sans merci	5
biography of john keats	17	keats quote	5
keats lamia	16	keats publishing	5
john keats poem	15	john keats criticism	5
john keats poetry	14	keats ode to a nightingale	5
keats poem	13	keats la belle dame sans merci	4
john keats to autumn	12	autumn john keats ode	4
by john keats lamia	11	john keats sonnet	4
camp keats	11	autumn john keats ode theme	4
keats and autumn	9	fenwick keats.com	4
richard keats	9	to autumn by john keats	3
john keats ode on a grecian urn	8	john keats when i have fear that i may cease to be	3
keats ode on a grecian urn	8	fear have i keats when	3
john keats picture	8	john keats bright star	3
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Misspellings: Keats

Misspellings
	"Keats" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Katase, Kazatsa, keets, keots, Kleitos, Kreutz, Uematsu. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Keats

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: skate, stake, steak, takes, teaks.
	Words within the letters "a-e-k-s-t"
	-1 letter: ates, east, eats, etas, kaes, kats, keas, sake, sate, seat, seta, skat, take, task, teak, teas.
	-2 letters: ask, ate, eat, eta, kae, kas, kat, kea, sae, sat, sea, set, ska, tae, tas, tea, tsk.
	-3 letters: ae, as, at, es, et, ka, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-k-s-t"
	+1 letter: basket, casket, gasket, latkes, skated, skater, skates, staked, stakes, steaks, strake, streak, takers, tasked, tweaks.
	+2 letters: anklets, auklets, backset, baskets, betakes, cakiest, caskets, dankest, darkest, flasket, gaskets, intakes, jackets, karates, kraters, lakiest, lankest, markets, mistake, packets, rackets, rankest, restack, retacks, retakes, setback, skaters, skatole, stacked, stacker, stalked, stalker, starker, straked, strakes, streaks, streaky, tackers, tackets, tackles, takahes, takeups, talkers, talkies, tankers, tsatske, uptakes, weakest.
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