Endymion: A Poetic Romance

Keats. The name is synonymous with great romantic poetry and great romantic poets. A short life but a legacy of works that few, if any, can rival. John Keats was born October 31st, 1795, in London, England, the eldest of four children Keats was 8 when his father, trampled by a horse, died. His mother remarried but lost much of the family’s assets. When that marriage fell apart she abandoned the family, returning only in 1810 to die of tuberculosis. At Enfield Academy, where he started to study,