White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
(Ode to a Nightingale, 46-50)
Given name: John
Family name: Keats
Birth date: 31 October 1795
Death date: 23 February 1821
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: Thomas Keats
mother: Frances Keats
brother: George Keats
brother: Thomas Keats
sister: Frances Mary Llanos
Languages
English
Italian
Latin
Education
Clarke School at Enfield: 1803
Apprenticeship to Thomas Hammond, surgeon: 1811
Guy's Hospital: 1815
Literary period: Romantic
Residences
24 Moorfields Pavement Row, London: 31 October 1795
Margate: 1816 to 1817
Isle of Wight: 1817
London: 1818
Wentworth Place, Hampstead: 1818
Rome: 1821
Cause of death: Consumption
Buried at: Protestant Cemetery, near pyramid of Gaius Cestius
First RPO edition: 1997