# Keats — Poetry character guide

> Keats in Poetry by Oscar Wilde.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0112-on-the-sale-by-auction-of-keats-love-letters

## Who they are

The Romantic poet John Keats, referenced in poems about art and love.

## In the story

### [Flowers of Gold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/flowers-of-gold)

Honored in 'The Grave of Keats' as a martyred poet resting beneath God's veil of blue.

### [The Grave of Keats](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/the-grave-of-keats)

The subject of the poem, mourned as a young martyr and poet-painter of England.

### [Flower of Love](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/flower-of-love)

Imagined lifting his hymeneal curls and kissing the speaker's forehead in a vision of artistic brotherhood.

### [On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_18_se/chapters/on-the-sale-by-auction-of-keats-love-letters)

The poet whose love letters are being auctioned; referred to as Endymion.

## Links

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