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Concise Biography &
Facts About John Keats
Nationality - English
Lifespan - 1795 - 1821
Father - Thomas Keats died in accident in 1804
Education - School in Enfield and St Guy's Hospital, London
Career - Poet and apothecary
Famous Poems by John Keats
'Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art' a poem
'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' a poem
'Ode On A Grecian Urn' a poem
'Ode To A Nightingale'
'The Eve of St. Agnes'
'To Autumn' a poem
Famous Quote by John Keats
"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity.
It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest
thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."
Information and Facts about John
Keats the man
Keats was born in London in 1795, his father Thomas Keats a
livery stable keeper, died in an accident when John was eight
years old, and his mother died when he was 14. John Keats was
appointed a guardian and kept at school for a further year,
after which he was apprenticed to an Apothecary Surgeon for
five years. On finishing his apprenticeship and reaching the
age of 20 he was entered into Guy's Hospital as a Medical
Student. Once he became certified to practice medicine, he did
so for less than a year turning all his attention towards
Poetry. Unfortunately this great poet only had five years in
which to write some of the poems the world has ever seen. When
John found out that his brother Tom had tuberculosis he went
to him in order to nurse him putting his medical skills to
use. Tom died in December 1817 and unknown to John he had
caught the disease from his brother. Soon after his brothers
death, John Keats became engaged to Fanny Brawne and for the
next year he produced the greatest of his works. John began to
suspect he had caught his brothers tuberculosis, and in
February 1820 he suffered his first haemorrhage, his doctor
advised him that to spend the winter in England would surely
kill him. Keats borrowed what money he could and travelled to
Italy where he died of a haemorrhage the following February
while in Rome. |
