g to poetry, say www.john-keats.com. Born in October of 1795 near London, he was the first son of a stable keeper, Thomas Keats, who was later killed in a work accident. The same year of her husband's death, the mother remarried, but soon after, the two split up. Keats's mother, Frances Jennings, took her children to England to live with their grandmother, where Keats attended a good school and became highly interested in literature and composition. Seven years later, Keats's mother died of tuberculosis, leaving him and his younger brother with their grandmother. However, since she could not keep up with youngsters at such an old age, she appointed two guardians for the children.
             At the age of sixteen, he was an apprentice of an Edmonton surgeon and had dreams of working in the medical field, but after a fight, Keats, then 19, left his master and became a sporadic hospital student in London. There, he studied with a friend, Cowden Clarke, and actually, devoted himself more to literature than medicine. Soon after, the budding poet gave up the hospital life for good.
             On the road to stardom, Keats became acquainted with famous artist and poets like Leigh Hunt, who helped him get his first poem published, an Percy Shelley, who was celebrated with Keats in the Romanticism period, as well. One year after his first poem was published in a magazine; Keats came out with thirty poems and sonnets in a volume simply entitled "Poems," which was the official start of his poetic career.
             On conscious impulses, Keats penned a number of brilliant poetical compositions. One of his first public pieces, written in October of 1816, is now one of the world's most famous sonnets, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." "Keats's adventurous mind may have been wondering when, in the magnificent picture of the explorer staring at the Pacific, he wrote 'Cortez' in...