3. BORN: OCTOBER 31, 1795, MOORGATE, LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM
DIED: FEBRUARY 23, 1821, ROME, ITALY (DUE TO
TUBERCULOSIS)
DIED AT THE AGE OF 25 YEARS.
4. JOHN KEATS
• John Keats was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets.
• He was the poet in the age of P. B Shelley and Lord Byron
• English Romantic lyric poet who devoted his short life to the perfection of a
poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal, and an attempt to express
a philosophy through classical legend
5. CHILDHOOD
• At the age of eight, Keats started attending the Enfield academy in England.
• He was described as a youth ‘‘ as youth who made friends easily and fought
passionately for their defense. ’’
• At school Keats best friend the 15 year old son of headmaster.
• They would later become his family after the passing of his parents.
6. • On April 15, 1804 Keat’s father died after falling of his horse.
• Keats mother then would later die in 1809 due to tuberculosis.
• Left as the oldest person in his house, Keats become the leader of his home.
• After these events, he looked to his headmaster as a father figure whenever he
needed guidance.
7. TEENAGE LIFE
• These two events are said to be what’s led Keats to become a poet.
• He began reading more and writing more for the advice of his headmaster.
• Despite this around the age of 17-18 he become a doctor but still kept a veracious passion for
reading and writing.
• Keats did not really realize his gift of writing untill the age of eighteen in which he read Faerie
Queen by Edmund Spencer.
8. ADULTHOOD
• Keats would later drop his job as a surgeon and become a
poet. He wrote mainly romantic poems.
• His poetry was inspired by Leigh Hunts style.
• In his poetry career, Keats wrote poems but did not make
great deal of money.
9. LIFE CAREER
• He never really took off his poetr.
• He is only now that he is recognized for being a great
poet.
• In 1819 he give up on poetry.
• Some of his best known poems are:
• ‘ I cry your mercy-pity- level! Aye, love!’
12. Hyperion, a Fragment is an
abandoned epic poem by 19th-century
English Romantic poet John Keats.
HYPERION
13. THE EVE OF ST. AGNES
• The Eve of St.
Agnes is a
Romantic
narrative poem of
42 Spenserian
stanzas set in the
Middle Ages. It
was written by
John Keats in
1819 and
published in
1820.
14. ISABELLA
• Isabella, or the Pot
of Basil is a
narrative poem by
John Keats
adapted from a
story in
Boccaccio's
Decameron.
• This poem was
published in 1820.
15. THE EVE OF ST.MARK
• The Eve
of Saint
(St.) Mark
is an
English
language
poem by
John
Keats.
• It was left
unfinished
in 1819.
16. ODE TO NIGHTINGALE
• John Keats famous
which he wrote into
his garden palm tree.
• It was fully published
in 1819.
17. ODE TO AUTUMN
• "To Autumn" is a
poem by English
Romantic poet John
Keats. The work was
composed on 19
September 1819 and
published in 1820 in
a volume of Keats's
poetry that included
Lamia and The Eve
of St. Agnes.
18. ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
• "Ode on a Grecian
Urn" is a poem
written by the
English Romantic
poet John Keats in
May 1819, first
published
anonymously in
Annals of the Fine
Arts for 1819.
19. BRIGHT STAR
• Bright star,
would I were
stedfast as
thou art
• Poem by John
Keats