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    John Keats was an English Romantic poet who died young at age 25 of tuberculosis. He was born in 1795 to a stable keeper and became an apothecary after his parents died, but gave up medicine for poetry in 1817. In a short writing career, he produced many famous works including Endymion, Hyperion, several odes such as "Ode on a Grecian Urn", and poems like "La Belle Dame Sans Merci". He fell in love with Fanny Brawne in 1819 but died of tuberculosis in Italy in 1821 at only 25 years old.

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    John Keats was an English Romantic poet who died young at age 25 of tuberculosis. He was born in 1795 to a stable keeper and became an apothecary after his parents died, but gave up medicine for poetry in 1817. In a short writing career, he produced many famous works including Endymion, Hyperion, several odes such as "Ode on a Grecian Urn", and poems like "La Belle Dame Sans Merci". He fell in love with Fanny Brawne in 1819 but died of tuberculosis in Italy in 1821 at only 25 years old.

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    John Keats was an English Romantic poet who died young at age 25 of tuberculosis. He was born in 1795 to a stable keeper and became an apothecary after his parents died, but gave up medicine for poetry in 1817. In a short writing career, he produced many famous works including Endymion, Hyperion, several odes such as "Ode on a Grecian Urn", and poems like "La Belle Dame Sans Merci". He fell in love with Fanny Brawne in 1819 but died of tuberculosis in Italy in 1821 at only 25 years old.

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    John Keats (1795-1821)

    Son of a livery-stable
    keeper, eldest of five.
    Father dies when Keats
    is 9; mother at 14 of TB.
    Apprenticed to a surgeon;
    licensed as apothecary.
    1817: gives up medicine
    for poetry.
    Close friend of Leigh
    Hunt, editor of The
    Examiner who publishes
    Keats Poems.
    Dubbed the Cockney
    Poet by Tories.
    Keats
    1817: Writes Edymion
    1818: Miltonic epic
    Hyperion. His brother
    Tom dies of TB.
    1819: Eve of St
    Agnes; La Belle
    Dame Sans Merci;
    Lamia; all the Great
    Odes, several
    sonnets.
    1819: Keats meets and
    falls in love Fanny
    Brawne.
    1820: Suffers his first
    major bout of TB.
    Asks that the words
    Here lies one whose
    name was writ in water
    to be inscribed as his
    epitaph.
    1821: dies in Italy at the
    age of 25.
    Drawing
    of Sosibios Vase by
    Keats

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