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John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn By Nie Zhouyan *About John Keats *Translation of Ode on a Grecian Urn *Analysis of the ode John Keats Background Oct.31st,1795:born in Finsbury Pavement near London 1810:became an orphan and taken from school to be an apprentice to a surgeon by his new guardians 1814: left his master and became a hospital student in London. 1814: sacrificed his medical ambitions to a literary life. 1816: published his first poem in a magazine. 1817:published about thirty poems and sonnets printed in the volume Poems. John Keats Productive Years 1817-1821 Winter of 1817:George Keats married and emigrated to America, leaving the consumptive brother Tom to Johns care. Apart from helping Tom against consumption, Keats worked on his poem Endymion. Just before its publication, he went on a hiking tour to Scotland and Ireland with his friend Charles Brown. First signs of his own fatal disease forced him to return prematurely, where he found his brother seriously ill and his poem harshly criticized. Dec. 1818 :Tom Keats died. John moved to Hampstead Heath, where he lived in the house of Charles Brown. While in Scotland with Keats, Brown had lent his house to a Mrs. Browne and her sixteen-year-old daughter Fanny. Since the ladies were still living in London, Keats soon made their acquaintance and fell in love with the beautiful, fashionable girl. Absorbed in love and poetry, he exhausted himself mentally. Autumn of 1819: he tried to gain some distance to literature through an ordinary occupation. John Keats Illness and Death 1820-1821 An unmistakable sign of consumption in February 1820 however broke all his plans for the future, marking the beginning of what he called his posthumous life. He could not enjoy the positive resonance on the publication of the volume Lamia, Isabella c., including his most celebrated odes. In the late summer of 1820, Keats was ordered by his doctors to avoid the English winter and move to Italy. His friend Joseph