Who is John Keats?

John Keats was a well-known and talented English poet who lived from 1795 to 1821. Despite his short lifetime, he is one of the world's most popular poets of all time, and his work has been anthologized in many books and educational texts throughout the world. Born in London, John Keats endured a series of great tragedies from a young age. His father died in 1804, after falling from a horse; his mother passed away only six years later from tuberculosis. At that time, John Keats was only 15 years old, but he became the primary caregiver for his younger brother, Tom. Sadly, Tom also suffered from tuberculosis, and died from the disease in 1818. Two years later, John Keats himself was diagnosed with tuberculosis. On his doctor's advice, he moved from London to Italy, which he hoped would help to restore his heath. Unfortunately, John Keats did not recover from the disease; he died of tuberculosis in 1819. Although John Keats was only 24 at the time of his death, he left behind a ...  more

John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work was the subject of constant critical attacks, and it was not until much later that the significance of the cultural change which his work both presaged and helped to form was fully appreciated. Keats's poetry is characterized by an exuberant love of the language and a rich, sensuous imagination; he often felt that he was working in the shadow of past poets, and only towards the end of his life was he able to produce his most original and most memorable poems. Life Keats was born on October 31, 1795 in the Swan and Hoop Inn at Moorgate, London, where his father was an ostler. The pub is now called "The John Keats at Moorgate", only a few yards from Moorgate station. The first seven years of Keats's life were happy. The beginnings of his troubles occurred in 1804, when his father died from a fractured skull after falling from his horse. His ...  more