Jon keats (1795-1821) was the son of a livery stable-keeper in london.
He could not complete his schooling but acquired a knowledge of latin and histroy, some french but not greek.
He was taken out of school and apprenticed to a Edmonton.
But the poet in him came to the fore soon.
A friend of shelly`s keats become intimate with hazlitt and leigh hunt .
He has to his credit a number of odes-ode on a grecian urn to a knightgale, and to autum, and those on melancholy, on indolence and to psyche.
By 1820 keats eas seriously ill with consumption .
He sailed for italy in september 1820, reached rome in november, and died there.
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