Learn some quick facts about
John Keats.
This week’s famous poet
is John Keats. Last week’s famous
poet was John Milton.
John Keats is a famous
poet. He wrote over one-hundred and forty poems. He was born in London, England.
His parents’ names are Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings. He had four siblings.
Continue reading to find
out more about John Keats.
Here is a list of some
poems by John Keats:
- Ode On a Grecian Urn
- A Thing of Beauty
- Ode To Autumn
- Bright Star
- A Song About Myself
- His Last Sonnet
- Fancy
- To Lord Byron
- On A Dream
Do you like poetry?
Quick facts about John
Keats:
1. He was born October 31, 1795 in London,
England. He may have been born on October 29th.
2. He took care of his brother who was dying from
tuberculous and he himself got ill from it. He eventually died from the
disease. John Keats was 25 years old when he died. He passed away on February
23, 1821, in Papal States, Rome. He is buried at Protestant Cemetery in Rome.
3. The following is one of John Keats’s poems:
On A Dream
As Hermes once took to
his feathers light,
When lulled Argus,
baffled, swoon’d and slept,
So on a Delphic reed, my
idle spright
So play’d, so charm’d,
so conquer’d, so bereft
The dragon-world of all
its hundred eyes;
And seeing it asleep, so
fled away,
Not to pure Ida with its
snow-cold skies,
Nor unto Tempe where
Jove griev’d that day;
But to that second
circle of sad Hell,
Where in the gust, the
whirlwind, and the flaw
Of rain and hail-stones,
lovers need not tell
Their sorrows—pale were
the sweet lips I saw,
Pale were the lips I
kiss’d, and fair the form
I floated with, about that melancholy storm.
(You
can print out a worksheet on this poem. You will fill in the missing words in
the poem)
4. When John Keats was eight (8) years old
his father fell off a horse on his way home causing his skull to fracture. His
father passed away shortly after the accident.
5. John Keats was educated at a dame school when he
was a young child. A dame school was a small privately taught school. He was
sent to John Clarkes school in 1803. In 1815 he went to Guy’s Hospital to study
as a medical student. In 1816 he received his apothecary's license. But by the
end of the year, he concluded that he would rather be a poet than a medical
doctor.
6. Here is a list of John
Keats’s siblings:
- George Keats (1797)
- Thomas Keats (1799)
- Edward Keats (1801)
- Frances Mary Keats (1803)
7. John Keats was in love with Frances
"Fanny" Brawne. They were secretly engaged, but he died from
tuberculous before he could be married to her. During his illness he and
Fanny kept in contact by writing letters to each other. John Keats never
married and he never had any children.
8. John Keats had three books of poetry published during his lifetime. When he became a published poet, he did not like any of his earlier poems, so he gathered them all together and burned them. He did not become a famous poet until after his death.
9. Here is a sonnet written by John Keats, perhaps
his favorite color was blue.
Blue! ‘tis the life of heaven,
–the domain
Of Cynthia, –the wide
palace of the sun, –
The tent of Hesperus and
all his train, –
The bosomer of clouds,
gold, grey and dun.
Blue! ‘Tis the life of
waters–ocean
And all its vassal
streams: pools numberless
May rage, and foam, and
fret, but never can
Subside if not to
dark-blue nativeness.
Blue! gentle cousin of
the forest green,
Married to green in all
the sweetest flowers,
Forget-me-not, –the
blue-bell, –and, that queen
Of secrecy, the violet:
what strange powers
Hast thou, as a mere
shadow! But how great,
When in an Eye thou art
alive with fate!
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Books
by John Keats and others:
1. A Song About Myself
by John Keats and Chris Raschka
2. The Complete John
Keats by John Keats
3. John Keats: Poetry by
Ellen Nicholls
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“I am certain of nothing
but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”—John
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