John Keats was a 19th century English Romantic poet known for his nature poetry. He found endless inspiration in nature, describing natural scenes and objects with precision. Keats believed the beauty imagined was superior to that perceived. Two of his famous nature poems are "Ode to a Nightingale" and "To Autumn", the latter celebrating the richness of the autumn season while also acknowledging its transience. Nature played a major role in Keats' work as both a source of joy and poetic inspiration.

1. John Keats as a Nature Poet
Name: Maru Janak J
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2.  John Keats was born on
31 October 1795 to
Thomas and Frances
Jennings Keats in Central
London.
Keats was prolific in his
short writing life, and is
now one of the most
studied and admired of
British poets.

3. He was a second generation Romantic
poet.
His first surviving poem ’An Imitation of
Spenser’s comes in 1814, when Keats was
nineteen.
A leading magazine ‘The Examiner’ first
published his work ‘Sonnet O Solitude’.

4. Keats was a nature poet and also Romentic
poet. Nature was one of the Greatest sources of
inspiration for keats.
Keats believed that ‘heard melodies are sweet,
but those unheard are sweeter’, I.e.: beauty
imagined is superior beauty perceived, since the
senses are more limited than the imagination and
its creative power.
Nature was a major theme among the
Romantics, but keats turned natural objects in to
poetic image.

5. Keats writes about
nature in two ways:
1.He tells us about the beauty in nature.
2.He tells us about the joy and relief
nature can bring.

6. John Keats poems:
The Think of Beauty
 Ode to a Nightingale
 Odes on a Grecian urn
To Autumn

7. In his poetry
Keats's love for nature is purely sensuous
and he loves the beautiful sights and scenes
of nature for their own sake.
He does not try to find any hidden
meaning in nature and he describes it as he
sees it.
Keats found in nature endless sources of
poetic inspiration, and he described the
natural world with precision and care.

8. In the “ ode to nightingale”,
Nightingale and he becomes one, his
soul sings in the bird which is the
symbols of joy.

9. The Autumn
It is the final work in the group of poems of keats
1819 odes.
 It is a transitional poem that celebrates not only the
richness and poignancy of the season but also the
beauty of Decay.
He was inspired to write the poem following a walk
near Winchester one autumnal evening.
The work marks the end of his poetic career as he
needed to earn money and could no longer devote
himself to the lifestyle of a poet.