Can we compare John Keats to William Shakespeare?

One cannot compare fire and water similar is in the case of above two,john keats lived very short only 25 ,yet he made his career most remarkable as a poet,i admire keats more than Shakespeare. He would have been more famous if he would have lived more. read more

On the Sonnet John Keats and William Wordsworth - a comparison of two poems. John Keats and William Wordsworth ironically wrote two sonnets about the sonnet with contrasting attitudes. Both authors have different ideas and feelings about the constraints imposed on the poet by the sonnet form. read more

If we compare Keats sonnet to Shakespeare’s sonnet Sonnet 116, we can see that both poets have conveyed a message of great importance through a 14 line, iambic pentameter sonnet. Although Keats form was slightly off traditional, Shakespeare follows loyally to the Shakespearian Sonnet form. Both poems have no setting. read more