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John Keats was born in London in 1795. He trained as a surgeon
and apothecary but quickly abandoned this profession for
poetry.
His first volume of poetry was published in 1817, soon after he had
begun an influential friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe
Shelley. His first collection and the subsequent long poem
Endymion recieved mixed reviews, and sales were poor.
In late 1818 he moved to Hampstead where he met and fell deeply in
love with his neighbour Fanny Brawne. During the following year
Keats wrote some of his most famous works, including 'The Eve of
St. Agnes', 'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'La Belle Dame sans
Merci'.
He was however increasingly plagued by ill-health and financial
troubles, which led him to break off his engagement to Fanny. Soon
after the publication of Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes
and Other Poems in 1820, Keats left England for Italy in the
hope that the climate would improve his health. But Keats was by
this time suffering from advanced tuberculosis, and he died on
February 23rd 1821.
On his request, Keats' tombstone reads only 'Here lies one whose
name was writ in water'.
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