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John Keats John Keats 1795-1821 English poet, b. London. He is considered one of the greatest of English poets. Life Introduction 10/31/1795 John Keats, the son of a livery-stable manager, was born in London on October 31, 1795 1804 Death of Keats father died. Mother remarried but marriage was broken soon after. 1810 Keat`s mother died of tuberculosis 1811 Keats was apprenticed to a surgeon-apothecary. 1814 His first poem, Lines in Imitation of Spenser, was written 1815 Moved to London and resumed his surgical studies as a student at Guy`s hospital. 1817 Poems, keat`s first book published 1818 Keats spent three months attending his brother Tom, who was seriously ill with tuberculosis. Tom died in December of the same year. 1820 the second volume of Keats poems was published 1821 Keats died in Rome at the age of 25. Keats told his friend Joseph Severn that he wanted on his grave just the line, Life of John Keats(1) English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in London. The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. His father, a livery-stable keeper, died when Keats was eight; his mother died of tuberculosis six years later. After his mothers death, Keatss maternal grandmother appointed two London merchants, Richard Abbey and John Rowland Sandell, as guardians. Abbey, a prosperous tea broker, assumed the bulk of this responsibility, while Sandell played only a minor role. When Keats was fifteen, Abbey withdrew him from the Clarke School, Enfield, to apprentice with an apothecary-surgeon and study medicine in a London hospital. In 1816 Keats became a licensed apothecary, but he never practiced his profession, deciding instead to write poetry. Life of John Keats(2) Around this time, Keats met Leigh Hunt, an influential editor of the Examiner, who published his sonnets On First Looking into Chapmans Homer and O Solitude. Hunt also introduced Keats to a circle of literary men, including the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and