Keats, John
1795 - John Keats was born on October 31st.
1804 - John's father was killed in a fall from a horse.
1810 - His mother died, a year or so after her brother died of the same disease. John was crushed, and turned from fighting to studying.
- He left school to be apprenticed to Mr. Thomas Hammond, a surgeon in Edmonton.
1813 - John first started reading lyric poetry, most notably works by Sir Edmund Spenser like "The Faerie Queen".
1816 - One of John's sonnets, called "To Solitude, " was printed, in the liberal newspaper, The Examiner. This sonnet was good, but it wasn't until a little later in the year that he wrote "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," which proved that he was the man to watch.
- He definitely abandoned medicine, and in the spring appeared Poems by John Keats dedicated to Leigh Hunt, and published by Charles and James Oilier.
1817 - His first volume of poetry appeared on March 3rd, and it didn't sell very well at all. John was depressed, but kept writing.
1818 - John apparently became convinced that he would have only three more years to live.
1820 - John was also developing consumption, coughing up blood in February.
- It was around this time that, without consulting John, Charles began arrangements for sending John to Italy. John didn't want to be so far away from his ladylove, but he felt incapable of arguing. He left in September, accompanied by Joseph Severn, an up and coming portrait artist.
1821 - On February 23rd, John died. Frances, upon hearing the news, seemed all right for a few weeks, then fell ill, and after recovering began wearing widows' weeds.
1804 - John's father was killed in a fall from a horse.
1810 - His mother died, a year or so after her brother died of the same disease. John was crushed, and turned from fighting to studying.
- He left school to be apprenticed to Mr. Thomas Hammond, a surgeon in Edmonton.
1813 - John first started reading lyric poetry, most notably works by Sir Edmund Spenser like "The Faerie Queen".
1816 - One of John's sonnets, called "To Solitude, " was printed, in the liberal newspaper, The Examiner. This sonnet was good, but it wasn't until a little later in the year that he wrote "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," which proved that he was the man to watch.
- He definitely abandoned medicine, and in the spring appeared Poems by John Keats dedicated to Leigh Hunt, and published by Charles and James Oilier.
1817 - His first volume of poetry appeared on March 3rd, and it didn't sell very well at all. John was depressed, but kept writing.
1818 - John apparently became convinced that he would have only three more years to live.
1820 - John was also developing consumption, coughing up blood in February.
- It was around this time that, without consulting John, Charles began arrangements for sending John to Italy. John didn't want to be so far away from his ladylove, but he felt incapable of arguing. He left in September, accompanied by Joseph Severn, an up and coming portrait artist.
1821 - On February 23rd, John died. Frances, upon hearing the news, seemed all right for a few weeks, then fell ill, and after recovering began wearing widows' weeds.
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