John Keats Biography
John Keats was an English poet and letter writer. Keats was born in London on Oct. ... Keats was the first of five children. In 1803, at the age of eight, Keats was sent to the Clarke Academy in Enfield, just north of London. At Enfield, Keats met his first literary mentor and loyal friend, Charles Cowden Clarke, son of the headmaster. Keats father died suddenly in April 1804 after a fall from a horse. ... After a short-lived second marriage, Keats mother joined the family in Edmonton. She died of tuberculosis in 1810, nursed in her last days by John. ... On his departure from school in 1811, Keats decided on a career in medicine, and for the next four years he was an apprentice to a surgeon-apothecary in Edmonton.