John Keats

Poet
BIRTHDAY
October 31,1795
Birthplace
England
Age
Feb 23,1821,age 25
Birth Sign
Scorpio
BIRTHDAY
October 31,1795 (age Feb 23,1821,age 25)
Birthplace
England

About

Major Romantic poet who wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale," and other their works. The first edition of his Complete Poetical Works was published in 1899, nearly eight decades after his death.

Before Fame

He worked in his youth as an apprentice to a surgeon and apothecary.

Trivia

His "To Autumn" is one of the most highly regarded English-language poems.

Family Life

He was romantically involved with Isabella Jones before theirly falling in love with Fanny Brawne. Keats' death from tuberculosis at age twenty-five ended his hopes of marriage to Ms. Brawne.

Associated With

He was a friend of fellow Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.