We tend to think of John Keats as, in Lucasta Miller’s provocative phrase, “the most romantic of the Romantic poets.” He’s the pure soul—so the legend goes—who died at only 25, penniless, passionately ...

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions. John Keats was born in 1795. Orphaned at the age of 14, he was apprenticed by a manipulative guardian to an apothecary, a kind ...

This is a biography by someone from Keats’s neighborhood. Lucasta Miller grew up in Hampstead, where Keats lived and met his beloved Fanny Brawne. Ms. Miller describes the area — what is almost the ...

NEW YORK — Aileen Ward, a scholar whose sympathetic, insightful biography of the Romantic poet John Keats won the National Book Award in 1964, died May 31 in her home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was ...

Happy birthday, John Keats. The Romantic poet best known for his odes -- “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode on Indolence,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode to Psyche” -- was born 218 ...

Today marks the day in 1821 when John Keats, the Romantic poet who waxed on Grecian urns and nightingales, succumbed to tuberculosis. He was only 25. John was thought to have contracted the infection ...