John Keats Jennings: A Brief Flame in the Romantic Landscape John Keats Jennings, often simply known as John Keats, remains a poignant figure within the constellation of English Romantic poetry. Born in London in 1795, his tragically short life – just twenty-five years – yielded an astonishingly concentrated body of work that nonetheless cemented his place as one of the second generation of Romantics, alongside luminaries like Lord By…