john keats - poetry research

             Born in 1795, Keats, the son of a stablekeeper, was raised in Moorfields, London, and attended the Clarke School in Enfield. The death of his mother in 1810 left Keats and his three younger siblings in the care of a guardian, Richard Abbey. Although Keats was apprenticed to an apothecary, he soon realized that writing was his true talent, and he decided to become a poet. Forced to hid his ambition from Abbey, who would not have sanctioned it, Kats instead entered Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals in London, becoming an apothecary in 1816 and continuing his studies to become a surgeon. When he reached the age of 21, Keats was free of Abbey's jurisdiction. Supported by his small inheritance, he devoted himself to writing. Kerats also began associating with artists and writers, among them Leigh Hunt, who published Keats' first poems in his journal, the EXAMINER. But within few years the poet experienced the first symptoms of tuberculosis, the disease that had killed his mother and brother. He continued writing and reading the great works of literature. He also fell in love with Fanny Brawne, a neighbor's daughter, though his poor health and financial difficulties made mariage impossible. He published a final work, LAMIA, ISABELLE, THE EVE OF ST. AGNES, AND OTHER POELS, which included his famous odes and the unfinished narrative, HYPERIOS: A FRAGMENT. Keats travelled to Italy in 1820 in an effort to improve his health but dies in Rome the following year at the age of 26.
             In the summer of 1819 Keats and his friend James Rice left for an ectended stay on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of England. Keats has spent time along on the Isle ni the spring of 1817, reading Shakespeare and receiving the inspiration that lef to the long poem, "Endymion" as well as some of his most famous insights about the nature of art. he hoperd the 1819 journey would prove equally invigorating, but he was distracted by his troubled love fo...

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