John Keats has a standard of his poems: ”Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.” This standard is something that he strived to accomplish throughout his life. He was born October 31, 1795 and was the oldest of Thomas and Frances Jennings Keats four children. Keats passed away on February 23, 1821 at the age of 25, from tuberculosis. His father, who was a stable-keeper, died when Keats was 8. Soon thereafter, his mother remarried. Unfortunately, her second marriage was unsuccessful and the Keats’ family lost a large amount of their fortune. For this reason, Keats and his siblings were immediately sent to live with their grandmother. These events helped shape Keats into an amazing poet (Biography.com Editors).
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It was there that he discovered his love for art and literature. After finishing his education at Clarke’s, Keats began to study medicine at hospital in London. He started becoming less interested in medicine and more interested in art and literature (“John Keats Biography”).
In 1814, Keats wrote his first poem that he titled “An Imitation to Spenser”. After this, Keats grudgingly continued studying medicine, and in 1816, he received his apothecary license. This allowed him to practice medicine as an apothecary, surgeon, and physician. However, Keats decided to become a poet instead of being a surgeon. That same year, he became inspired to continue writing because of the success of his sonnet “O Solitude” that had been published in a magazine called “The Examiner”. It was from there that Keats’s poetry career took off (“John Keats
It was there that he discovered his love for art and literature. After finishing his education at Clarke’s, Keats began to study medicine at hospital in London. He started becoming less interested in medicine and more interested in art and literature (“John Keats Biography”).
In 1814, Keats wrote his first poem that he titled “An Imitation to Spenser”. After this, Keats grudgingly continued studying medicine, and in 1816, he received his apothecary license. This allowed him to practice medicine as an apothecary, surgeon, and physician. However, Keats decided to become a poet instead of being a surgeon. That same year, he became inspired to continue writing because of the success of his sonnet “O Solitude” that had been published in a magazine called “The Examiner”. It was from there that Keats’s poetry career took off (“John Keats