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John Keats Family John Keats was born in Moorgate, London on 31 October 1795 to Thomas Keats and his wife Frances Keats. There is no clear evidence of his exact birthplace. John Keats Brother George is born in1797, brother tom is born in 1799 and sister fanny is born in 1803…

John Keats EducationIn 1803 John Keats’s enters school in Enfield. Becomes friend with Charles Cowden Clarke. Clarke encourages Keats’s interest in reading.

In April 1804, when John Keats was eight year old, his father died. The cause of death was a skull fracture, suffered when he fell from his horse while returning from a visit to Keats and his brother George at school. In March 1810 when John Keats was 14 year old, his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving the children in the custody of their grandmother. She appointed two guardians, Richard Abbey and John Sandell to take care of them.

‘Bright Star’ Bright star, would I were stedfast

as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors - No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death -

FANNY BRAWNE

Keats was well educated at a school in Enfield, where he began a Keats was well educated at a school in Enfield, where he began a translation of Virgil's Aeneid. In 1810 he was apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon. His first attempts at writing poetry date from about 1814, and include an `Imitation' of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser.

In 1815 he left his apprenticeship and became a student at Guy's Hospital,

London; one year later, he abandoned the profession of medicine for poetry.

In 1816, Keats received his apothecary's licence,which made him eligible to practice as an

apothecary, physician, and surgeon, but before the end of the year he announced tohis guardian that he was resolved to be a poet,

not a surgeon

Keats' first volume of poems was published in 1817. It attracted some good reviews, but these were followed by the first of several harsh attacks by the influential Blackwood's Magazine. Undeterred, he pressed on with his poem `Endymion', which was published in the spring of the following year.

Keats toured the north of England and Scotland in the summer of 1818, returning home to nurse his brother Tom, who was ill with tuberculosis. After Tom's death in December he moved into a friend's house in Hampstead, now known as Keats House.

Wentworth Place

1818Crisis year for KeatsJuly-August Keats takes walking tour of Lake District and Scotland with Charles BrownBecomes ill on carriage ride homeReturns home to nurse his brother TomTom dies of consumption Begins Hyperion

1819• January writes “Eve of St. Agnes”• April-May writes “La Belle Dame sans Merci” and the great Odes.• Keats moves to Wentworth place.• Meets and falls in love with Fanny

Brawne; becomes engaged to Fanny• Experiences first signs of

tuberculosis.• Begins and abandons “The Fall of

Hyperion”

1820• Keats has a severe haemorrhage and is confined to his house• Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and other poems published and well-reviewed• September sails for Italy with Joseph Severn• November 30 writes his last known letter

1821•February 23 Keats dies at 26 Piazza di Spagna, Rome•February 26 Keats is buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome

‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’When I have fears that I may cease to be

Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,Before high piled Books, in charact’ry,

Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,

Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,And think that I may never live to traceTheir shadows, with the magic hand of

Chance;And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!

That I shall never look upon thee more,Never have relish in the faery power

Of unreflecting love! — then on the shoreOf the wide world I stand alone, and thinkTill Love and Fame to Nothingness do sink.

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“On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”

Written October 1816 after spending evening with Clarke reading Chapman’s translation of HomerKeats begins to meet the group of friends known as “the Hunt Circle” who will influence him for the rest of his lifeKeats decides to abandon medicine for poetry

Ode to a NightingaleOde to a Nightingale is a poem by John Keats. Written in May, 1819, it was first published in “Annals of the Fine Arts” in July of the same year. Referred to by critics of the time as "the longest and most personal of the odes," the poem describes Keats” journey into the state of Negative Capability. The poem explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being the most personal to Keats, making as he does a direct reference to the death in 1818 of his brother, Tom.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forgetWhat thou among the leaves hast never known,The weariness, the fever, and the fretHere, where men sit and hear each other groan;Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs,Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;Where but to think is to be full of sorrowAnd leaden-eyed despairs;Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,Or new love pine at them beyond tomorrow.

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Away! away! for I will fly to thee,Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,But on the viewless wings of Poesy,Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:Already with thee! tender is the night,And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,Clustered around by all her starry fays;But here there is no light,Save what from heaven is with the breezes blownThrough verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.

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