Keats

//ˈkits// name

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  1. 1
    A surname transferred from the nickname or originating as a patronymic.
  2. 2
    John Keats (1795–1821), English poet and key figure of the Romantic movement.

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"So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died."

Etymology

From a Middle English byname meaning “kite” (bird), from kete, from Old English cȳta (“kite, bittern”), from Proto-Germanic *kūtijô, diminutive of *kūts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gū- (“to cry, screech”).

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