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Life
John Keats was born in London on October 31st, 1795. The first son of a stable-keeper, he had a sister and three brothers, one of whom died in infancy. When John was eight years old, his father was killed in an accident. In the same year his mother married again, but little later separated from her husband and took her family to live with her mother. John attended a good school where he became well acquainted with ancient and contemporary literature. In 1810, his mother died of consumption, leaving the children to their grandmother. Under the authority of the guardians, he was taken from school to be apprentice to a surgeon. In 1814, before completion of his apprenticeship, John left his master after a quarrel, becoming a hospital student in London. Under the guidance of his friend Cowden Clarke, he devoted himself increasingly to literature. In 1816 Keats became a licensed apothecary, but he never practiced his profession, deciding instead to write poetry.
He soon got acquainted with celebrated artists of his time, like Leigh Hunt, Percy B. Shelley and Benjamin Robert Haydon.



His family memers
In the following winter, George Keats married and emigrated to America, leaving the consumptuous brother Tom to the John's care.
Apart from helping Tom against consumption, Keats worked on his poem "Endymion". Just before its publication, he went on a hiking tour to Scotland and Ireland with his friend Charles Brown. First signs of his own fatal disease forced him to return prematurely, where he found his brother seriously ill and his poem harshly critisized.
In December 1818 Tom Keats died. John moved to Hampstead Heath, and he lived in the house of Charles Brown. While in Scotland with Keats, Brown had lent his house to a Mrs Brawne and her sixteen-year-old daughter Fanny. Since the ladies where still living in London, Keats soon made their acquaintance and fell in love with the beautiful, fashionable girl.
He continued a correspondence with Fanny Brawne and—when he could no longer bear to write to her directly—her mother, but his failing health and his literary ambitions prevented their getting married. Under his doctor's orders to seek a warm climate for the winter, Keats went to Rome with his friend Shelly . He died there on February 23, 1821, at the age of twenty-five, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery.
Here lies one whose name was written in water .此地长眠者，声名水上书。

Major wokes
John Keats lived only twenty-five years and four months (1795-1821), yet his poetic achievement is extraordinary.
His writing career lasted a little more than five years (1814-1820), and three of his great odes--"Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "Ode on Melancholy"--were written in one month. Most of his major poems were written between his twenty-third and twenty-fourth years, and all his poems were written by his twenty-fifth year. In this brief period, he produced poems that rank him as on

e of the great English poets. He also wrote letters which T.S. Eliot calls "the most notable and the most important ever written by any English poet."
Published his first important poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” in 1816
Five long poems – Endymion(1818),Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, Lamia , Hyperion
? his greatest odes--"Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and "Ode on Melancholy"
? The third and best of his volumes of poetry(1820).
Endymion, a four-thousand-line erotic romance based on the Greek myth of the same name, appeared in 1817. Two of the most influential critical magazines of the time, the Quarterly Review and Blackwood's Magazine, attacked the collection. Calling the romantic verse of Hunt's literary circle "the Cockney school of poetry," Blackwood's declared Endymion to be nonsense and recommended that Keats give up poetry.



Major Features of Keats’s Poetry
? Characterized by exact and closely knit construction, sensual description, force of imagination
? Sight, sound, scent,taste and feeling are all taken in to give an entire understanding of an experience
? the lasting power of beauty and its union with truth
? Major subject matters of his poems –love & beauty and suffering & death

His position in English litarature
Known as a sensuous and romantic poet
A voice through which beauty expresses itself
He is, like Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, one of the indisputable great English poets. And his mighty poems will no doubt have a lasting place in the history of English literature