John Keats gave a short and sad life with great longing, unrequited love, and felt poetic failure. Nevertheless, and perhaps because of this, he has since become perhaps the most remarkable and resounding poet of the Romantic era. The life story of Keats's often difficult to separate from his poems and correspondence, as his personal tragedy echoes so loudly from many parts of his work, but it is a private drive, which has led to numerous Keats's views and theories about the importance of ...