John Keats

John Keats was born in 1795, the son of a stable keeper, was orphaned at fourteen, was placed with an apothecary, and obtained his apothecary's licence before giving up medicine for poetry. He nursed his brother, who was dying of tuberculosis, then wrote in a few months of 1819 the great odes on which his reputation rests, and contracted the same illness. He left for Italy on medical advice and died in Rome in 1821, at the age of twenty-five.

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• PoetryOde to a NightingaleJohn Keats · 1819LiteraturePublic domain