John Keats
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- proper noun
- The works of John Keats are celebrated for their beauty and emotional depth.
Examples
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Many students study the poetry of John Keats in literature classes.
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Have you read John Keats' poems?
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A portrait of John Keats hangs in the museum's Romantic poetry section.
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The works of John Keats are celebrated worldwide.
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Many students study the poetry of John Keats in literature classes.
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A portrait of John Keats hangs in the museum's Romantic poetry section.
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The works of John Keats are celebrated for their beauty and emotional depth.
Synonyms
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A famous English poet from the early 1800s who wrote rich, emotional poems
Surface Forms
Morphology
John + Keats
This is a proper name referring to a specific historical person, so its meaning is referential rather than compositional. A B1 learner who knows the words 'John' and 'Keats' would not be able to infer biographical or poetic information from those constituents alone unless they already knew Keats as a poet, so the expression is not transparently derived from its parts.
Etymology
John Keats belongs to an English poet who lived from 1795 to 1821 and wrote vivid, sensory poems. He died very young and often wrote about nature and beauty, for example the bird in 'Ode to a Nightingale', so mentioning John Keats today usually brings to mind the poet or his beautiful, emotional poems.