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John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley His poems were indifferently received in his lifetime but his fame grew rapidly after his death By the end of the century he was placed in the canon of English literature strongly influencing many writers of the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood Keats had a style heavily loaded with sensualities notably in the series of odes Typically of the Romantics he accentuated extreme emotion through natural imagery Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature in particular Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn Sleep and Poetry and the sonnet On First Looking into Chapmans Homer AckWikipedia