Poetry should be great and ... by John Keats, an English Poet

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“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”

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Name: John Keats

Nationality: English

Date of Birth: Oct 31, 1795

Date of Death: Feb 23, 1821

Profession: Poet

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