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John Keats October 31, — February 23, was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. Keats' poetry is characterized by an exuberant love of language and a rich, sensuous imagination, all of which contrasts sharply with the tragic circumstances of his short life.

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Keats succumbed to tuberculosis at age The Romantics prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism and stressed the individual imagination as an authoritative voice. Keats felt that the deepest meaning of life lay in the apprehension of material beauty. Although early critical opinion of Keats' poetry was hostile, with the notable exceptions of his close friends and the exiled poet Percy Shelly , Keats is included among the six major Romantic English poets, which in addition to Shelly included William Blake , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , William Wordsworth , Lord Byron.

Keats, like other late Romantics, seemed little concerned with institutional religion, writing to a friend in , "I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth, whether it existed before or not. John Keats was born on October 31, , in Finsbury Pavement in London , where his father was an ostler.

In , his father died from a fractured skull after falling from his horse. His mother remarried soon afterwards, but quickly left the new husband and the family moved in with Keats' grandmother. There, Keats attended a school that first instilled in him a love of literature.