John Keats
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Milestones
31 October 1795
JK
, poet and letter-writer, was born in Finsbury, London, the eldest of five children.
There is actually some doubt about the day he was born. This is the date given in the official baptismal record, but the family tradition referred to two days earlier.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, p. ix - lxxxii.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
23 February 1821
JK
, poet, died of tuberculosis at twenty-five years old, in Rome (where it had been hoped that the climate might improve his health).
Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, p. ix - lxxxii.
lxxxii
Biography
Birth and Family
31 October 1795
JK
, poet and letter-writer, was born in Finsbury, London, the eldest of five children.
There is actually some doubt about the day he was born. This is the date given in the official baptismal record, but the family tradition referred to two days earlier.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Keats, John. “Introduction”. The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, Oxford University Press, p. ix - lxxxii.
lxxx
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.