-  Died 1821, 23 February in Rome.

-  Second generation of Romantic lyric poet.

-  Short life.

-  He devotes himself to perfect poetry.

-Son of livery-stable manager (manager stabile alla livrea).

-  Not too much formal education.

-  1804, death of him father.

-Mother remarries soon after.

- The mother breaks up.

-  Keats brother lived at Edmonton with their grandmother.

- Enfield school by Charles Cowed Clarke, his son inspired the literary vocation of Keats.

-  At school he was the “non-literary” boy but the change in 1809 when did he start his passion o f reading.

-  After the death of the mother’s keats, their kids passed into the hands of Richard Abbey.

-  1811 become a surgeon’s apprentice in the abbey.

- 1814, left his apprenticeship and when to live in london.

-  (Father squire, died with a horse fall)

- Study classic books.

-  He becomes a surgeon.

- 1816 abandons medicine to devote himself to literature.

-  I met percy b. Shelly and Robert Heydan (painter).

-  Fascinated by Greek art which will influence his poetry.

- Thanks to Leigh Hunt publishes his first poems.

-  Travel to Northern England and Scotland with Charles Brown

-  He gets sick during the trip and so he goes back to England.

-  In 1818 he fell in love with Fanny Brawne, to whom he wrote passionate love letters "the most important ever written by an English poet", which meant artistic development, spiritual growth and a passion for poetry.

- He did not marry due to financial difficulties and his poor health.

-  1819, (Keats's annus mirabilis), thanks to some poems he gained eternal fame

-  In 1820 deterioration of health

- in Italy with a friend, Joseph Severn, in search of a better climate (First Naples then Rome where he died in 1821)

- buried in the Protestant Cemetery of Rome. on his tomb there is not his name but only an epitaph: "Here lies a man whose name was writ in water".

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