Poems of John Keats - Penguin Classics Author:John Keats Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that he had - unwittingly - fulfilled his wish that he should 'be among the English poets after my death'. This new, wide-ranging... more » selection of Keats' poetry has been selected by Claire Tomalin.« less