John Keats
By: Anonymous
John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and a major figure in the Romantic movement, was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London. His father died when he was eight and his mother when he was fourteen; these sad circumstances drew him particularly close to his two brothers, George and Tom, and his sister Fanny. Keats was well educated at a school in Enfield, where he began a translation of Virgil\'s Aeneid. In 1810 he was apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon. His first attempts at writing poetry date from about 1814, and include an `Imitation\' of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser. In 1815 he left his apprenticeship and became a student at Guy\'s Hospital, London; one year later, he abandoned the profession of medicine for poetry. Keats\'s first volume of poems was published in 1817. It attracted some good reviews, but these were followed by the first of several harsh attacks by the influential Blackwood\'s Magazine. Undeterred, he pressed on with......
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