John Keat's Life History

 Frances Jennings and Thomas Keats's delivered this first child, John Keats, on October 31^st in 1795. He was born and raised outside of London with 3 siblings, aside of one who died as an infant. His family carried a business which provided horses to near by neighbors. When John was 8, his father suffered from a skull fracture after being thruster by his horse. Hours later, the accident had caused his fathers death.

Two months had gone by and yet John’s mother had wed a bank clerk to help her carry Thomas’s business. Although the marriage was a failure leaving the children sent to their grandparents.  The lost of their grandfather took place soon after John and his siblings moved in. The family had to live on half of the regular income.

The Keats brothers went to school where they were very well known. John especially caught a few teachers’ eye with his passion of arts literature. In 1810 his mother died of an illness and within 4 years their grandmother past away. Money became extremely tight and John and his siblings were put to care under two other guardians. John was forced to leave school to help be an assistant for a surgeon. His first poetry was written while he was in medical training called The Examiner.  He then left his medical experience and dedicated himself to literature.

Famous Bryon and Shelley were big influences in Johns work.  In 1817, Keats worked on poetry and launched his book filled with his poetry. He fell in loved with a woman named Fanny Brawne in 1819. That same year he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and he felt that his death was coming upon him. A year later he published another volume of poems are known to be his best work. His work includes his famous poems; Lamia, Isabella, and the Eve of St. Agnes.

He became weak and racked up a heavy cold. Slight coughs had caused him to cough off blood and became fetal as time went by. He left cold climate of London and moved to Rome in where his friend took care of him. John Keats died on February 23 in 1821.He was known to be one of the poets of his time along with Percy Shelly and Lord Byron.