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John Keats
Essay title: John Keats
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 Virgils 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 Guys Hospital, London; one year later, he abandoned the profession of medicine for poetry. Keatss 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 Blackwoods Magazine. Undeterred, he pressed on with his poem Endymion, which was published in the spring of the following year. Keats toured the north of England and Scotland in