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John Keats (1795-1821), one of the greatest English poets, was born into humble beginnings and apprenticed to an apothecary. Influenced by Leigh Hunt and his circle, he found himself criticized as a member of Hunt’s ‘Cockney School’ of poverty in 1818.
However, Keats is more appropriately regarded as one of the foremost poets of the second generation of the Romantic poets, alongside contemporaries Byron and Shelley. Stricken by tuberculosis, he followed Shelley’s advice and moved to Italy, where he eventually passed away in Rome. Keats directed that his epitaph should read “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
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