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John Keats

1795 - 1821

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John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Keats has received more than 6,625,278 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). John Keats is the 350th most popular writer (down from 254th in 2019), the 273rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 190th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Writer.

John Keats is most famous for his poetry, particularly his sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."

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  • 6.6M

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  • 68.74

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  • 90

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Keats ranks 350 out of 5,755. Before him are Wilhelm Grimm, Johannes V. Jensen, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Paul Éluard, James Fenimore Cooper, and Truman Capote. After him are Max Brod, Nâzım Hikmet, Jacques Prévert, Ahmad Yasawi, Andrzej Sapkowski, and Jean Genet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, John Keats ranks 4. Before him are James K. Polk, Frederick William IV of Prussia, and Leopold von Ranke. After him are Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Griboyedov, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Antonio José de Sucre, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Dred Scott, and John William Polidori. Among people deceased in 1821, John Keats ranks 2. Before him is Napoleon. After him are Joseph de Maistre, John William Polidori, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans, Caroline of Brunswick, Franz Karl Achard, William I, Elector of Hesse, Johann Jacob Schweppe, Gregory V of Constantinople, Tudor Vladimirescu, and Jean Rapp.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Keats ranks 273 out of 7,765. Before him are John Constable (1776), Jeremy Irons (1948), George Everest (1790), Mary of Teck (1867), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), and Nicholas Winton (1909). After him are Jane Goodall (1934), Benjamin Britten (1913), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943), Peter Higgs (1929), Alec Guinness (1914), and Daniel Craig (1968).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John Keats ranks 31. Before him are J. K. Rowling (1965), Roald Dahl (1916), William Golding (1911), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), C. S. Lewis (1898), and Graham Greene (1904). After him are Anne Brontë (1820), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), William Wordsworth (1770), Ken Follett (1949), George Eliot (1819), and G. K. Chesterton (1874).

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