Lecture 4 of Book Two John Keats.ppt

Lecture 4 of Book Two John Keats I. Life: John Keats was born in 1795 in London. Before John was fifteen, both his parents died and his guardian, a merchant, took him from school and bound him as an apprentice to a surgeon. For five years he served his apprenticeship and for two years more he was surgeons helper in the hospitals. But he early contracted a love of poetry under the influence of his young teacher Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), who gave him a copy of The Fairy Queen. He made friends with Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt and Shelley in London and published some poems in Hunts ma