john keats (31 october 1795 – 23 february 1821) was an english poet. he is often ranked as one of the five most important poets of the romantic movement in english literature; the other four are william wordsworth, samuel taylor coleridge, lord byron, and percy bysshe shelley. though keats was the youngest of these poets, he also died before the others: he suffered from tuberculosis and died in rome at the age of 25.