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Imagination, Beauty and Truth: John Keats

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Imagination , Beauty and Truth : John Keats’s ‘ Ode on a Grecian Urn ’ and Letters to George and Tom Keats and Benjamin Bailey   by Fatma Nur Korkmaz             John Keats , who was born on 31 October 1795 in London , and died on 23 February 1821 in Rome, was a very different kind of Romantic . In his short life, he had to witness the death of both his parents and his brother Tom . Keats suffered a lot as a young man. He experienced the emptiness of death , but through this misery , he found the beauty and essence of being . He fell in love with life ‘ again ’ and ‘ more than ever’. All shaped him as a great and unique poet and made him widely admired . He set many other artists a shining example , and it is no wonder that he became an indispensable name of world literature . He has over 250 surviving letters that typify his life and provide a window into his notions and poetry . In this regard , h