India, Oct. 28 -- John Keats was just 25 when he died in Rome, convinced that his name was "writ in water". Two centuries later, his words endure: from the aching cadences of Ode to a Nightingale to the mellow ripeness of To Autumn. October 31, 2025 is his 230th birth anniversary, and the milestone, later this week, is the perfect time to look back at a poet whose brief life left an indelible mark on English literature.

In London, Keats House in Hampstead, where he once lived, loved Fanny Brawne, and wrote many of his most celebrated poems, is marking a double anniversary this year: 230 years since the poet's birth and 100 years since the house first opened as a museum. A new centenary exhibition, Keats House 100, recreates the home as i...