Bored PhysicianĪfter he finished school, Keats studied as a surgeon. However she lost a great part of her money to a crook. ![]() His grandma took in the future poet, who read voraciously and won one essay contest after another at school. John Keats, a lively boy who loved fighting but was well loved by his friends, became an orphan (= without parents) at the age of 14. This was after his father died as the result of a horse riding accident. His mother and uncle died of the same nasty disease. He had the bad luck to contract tuberculosis, which at that time was often fatal. ![]() The poet I’m talking about is John Keats (1795–1821). Did you know that one of the most revered* poets in the English language died when he was only 25? And this was way before the time when famous singers and rockers became immortal (= live forever) when they died of drug overdoses.
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