Keats Context

When was Keats born?

October 31st 1795

In what year did Keats’ education begin at Clarke’s School in Enfield?

1803

What was Clarke’s School known to be like?

A very progressive school which focused heavily on literacy.

What did Keats’ early education show about him?

Keats’ had talent for reading, and a passion for history and mythology from a very early age.

When and how did Keats’ father die?

In the April of 1804, his father died due a skull fracture after falling of a horse.

When and how did Keats’ mother die?

In the March of 1810, she died from turberulosis.

What happened to Keats and his siblings after the death of their mother.

The children are left with their grandmother, Alice Jennings, and the guardian she appointed, Richard Abbey.

When did Keats begin his medical studies, as an apprentice, in Edmonton?

1811

When did Keats enroll at Guy’s Hospital (now King’s College London) to train as a surgeon?

1815

In what year does Keats meet Leigh Hunt, editor for ‘The Examiner’?

1816

When does ‘The Examiner’ publish Keats’ first poem, ‘O’ Solitude’?

In the May of 1816

In what year did Keats qualify to practice medicine?

1816

In what year did Keats publish his first collection, ‘Poems’?

1817

When did Keats meet Fanny Brawne?

In the November of 1818

What year is considered to be ‘The Great Year of Keats’, where he wrote most of his celebrated works?

1819

When did Keats set sail for Italy with his friend, Joseph Severn, leaving Fanny Brawne behind?

In the September of 1820

When did John Keats die?

On the 25th of February 1821, aged 25, in Rome.