John Keats Biography

John Keats was an English poet and letter writer. Keats was born in London on Oct. 31, 1795. Keats was the first of five children. In 1803, at the age of eight, Keats was sent to the Clarke Academy in Enfield, just north of London. At Enfield, Keats met his first literary mentor and loyal friend, Charles Cowden Clarke, son of the headmaster. Keats' father died suddenly in April 1804 after a fall from a horse. The children then …

…years?between July 1816, when he determined to become a poet, and the fall of 1819, when failing health ended composition. Keats work helped develop the Romantic Movement into England. Despite his early death at the young age of 25, Keats wrote poetry of immense influence and magnificence in an astonishingly wide variety. He wrote epics, romances, sonnets, odes, and letters. Keats today ranks amid the very a small number of poets who can be compared to Shakespeare.