John Keats was an English poet and letter writer. Keats was born in London on Oct. 31, 1795. Keats was the first of five children. In 1803, at the age of eight, Keats was sent to the Clarke Academy in Enfield, just north of London. At Enfield, Keats met his first literary mentor and loyal friend, Charles Cowden Clarke, son of the headmaster. Keats' father died suddenly in April 1804 after a fall from a horse. The children then went to live with their grandparents, and on Mr. Jennings' death in 1805 moved with their grandmother to Edmonton. After a short-lived second marriage, Keats' mother joined the family in Edmonton. She died of tuberculosis in 1810, nursed in her last days by John. Mrs. Jennings died in 1814, leaving a substantial trust fund of over £800, the greater part of which was tied up in litigation and never reached the children.
On his departure from school in 1811, Keats decided on a career in medic
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Meanwhile, Keats' literary interests flowered into a serious dedication to poetry. Keats work helped develop the Romantic Movement into England. In 1815 he entered Guy's Hospital in London for a year of training and received his apothecary's certificate in 1816. During his apprentice years he tried his hand at writing some lyric poems and kept up his literary friendship with Clarke. Keats today ranks amid the very a small number of poets who can be compared to Shakespeare. The year 1818 Keats saw many changes in his life, most of them distressing.
Keats first great poem, the sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, was written in October 1817. Virtually all this work was composed within a span of a little over three years?between July 1816, when he determined to become a poet, and the fall of 1819, when failing health ended composition.
Keats published 54 poems during his lifetime, and 96 other works were published posthumously. He was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. ine, and for the next four years he was an apprentice to a surgeon-apothecary in Edmonton. Fearing the effect of another English winter, his doctors advised travel to a warmer climate, and on September 18, Keats and a companion, the young painter Joseph Severn, sailed for Italy. He wrote epics, romances, sonnets, odes, and letters.
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