John Keats

John Keats was born in London in 1795, the eldest son of a man who managed the stables of a London inn. His father died after a fall from a horse when John was eight, and his mother died of tuberculosis when he was fourteen. He trained as an apothecary and surgeon at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1816, but he decided to devote himself to poetry. The writer Leigh Hunt encouraged him and published his early sonnets, including 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer'. His long poem Endymion (1818) was harshly reviewed. In 1818 he nursed his younger brother Tom, who died of tuberculosis, and he fell in love with Fanny Brawne. In 1819 he wrote most of the poems for which he is best known, including 'Ode to a Nightingale', 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and 'To Autumn'. In 1820 he too developed tuberculosis. He traveled to Italy for his health and died in Rome in 1821, aged 25. He asked that his gravestone bear the words 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water.'

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