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John Keats, drawing by Joseph Severn, 19th century.
John Keats’s first book, titled Poems, was published in March 1817. The collection was written largely under the influence of the poet Leigh Hunt and includes his notable sonnet, "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer".12