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John Keats (1795—1821) John Keats 1795-1821 English romantic poet. He is considered one of the greatest English poets. Keats’s Life Came from a poor background, son of a liver-stable keeper, lost his parents early in life, and was apprenticed at 15 to a doctor. Had no formal education or literary training. Made up for deficiency with voracious reading. Read well in Greek and Elizabethan literature, and had Homer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton among his literary passions. Misfortunes befell him ruthlessly. His brother died, and he contracted the terminal disease---tuberculosis. He loved a you