Today’s Poem: When I Have Fears

John Keats’s existential anxiety

The grave of John Keats in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome (Wikimedia Commons)

Of the English Romantics, it’s John Keats (1795–1821) who strikes us as that mythical creature, the “poet’s poet.” It’s Keats whose preoccupation is not only with human experience as part of a whole web of creation, ebbing and flowing in response to the world around it, but wi…