EDNA P.

MANGI
GLORIA CLUSTER 3
BSED-ENGLISH

WRITER

JOHN KEATS
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is
experienced”

EARLY LIFE
John Keats was one of England’s greatest poets. He was born in
London on 31 October 1795. His father Thomas Keats was an
innkeeper. His mother was called Frances. The couple had 5
children. In 1803 John Keats went to Clarke’s School in Enfield.
However, in 1804 tragedy struck when his father was killed by
falling off a horse. His mother quickly remarried. However, she soon
separated from her new husband. John Keats then went to live with
his grandmother. John was reconciled with his mother by 1809 but
by then she was ill. She died in 1810.

FAMOUS WORKS Other POEMS

Six lyric Odes
Hypreian
Ode the autumn Endymian
Ode the melancholy The Eve of St. Agnes
Ode the Nightingale La BElle Dame Sans Mercy
Ode the psyche “When i Have Fears”
Ode the Indolence “Bright Star”
Ode a Grecian Urn Lamia

INTERSTING FACTS ABOUT JOHN KEATS

He works as a surgeon’s apprentice and assistant before devoting
himself entirely to poetry at age 21.
Keats consider his earlier works to be awful so much so that he
collected every piece of paper containing them and burned them.
The Odes are Keats’s most distinctive poetic achievement they are
classic pieces of English Literature.
As a sonneteer, Keats ranks with the greatest English poets. He
wrote sixty-one sonnet.
Keats was engaged to the love of his life, Fanny Browne however
they were never married.
This great poets only had five years of his poetic career
Keats died in tuberculosis in rRome, Italy.

THE GREAT POET LATER LIFE

The Great Poet
In 1810 John left school and in 1811 he was However, in 1820 Keats fell ill
apprenticed to a surgeon and apothecary in with tuberculosis. He went to
Edmonton. As a teenager, Keats became
Italy in the hope that the
passionately fond of poetry and when he was
about 18 he wrote his first poem, one entitled climate might help.
‘Imitation of Spenser’. Nevertheless, John Keats died
in Rome on 23 February 1821.
In 1815 John became a student at Guy’s Hospital
in London. But he continued to write poetry. In He was only 25. Keats was
1816 he had a poem published for the first time, buried in the Protestant
in a magazine called The Examiner. It was a cemetery.
sonnet called ‘O Solitude!’. Also in 1816, Keats
passed his exams. Then in 1817, he published a
book called ‘Poems’. However, it was not a
success, attracting little interest.