John Keats Research Paper

John Keats lived a short but extraordinary life. He was not widely appreciated in his own time and gained fame only towards the end of his life. However, amidst this adversity, he persevered and continued writing poetry. A COUPLE MORE GENERAL INFO SENTENCES. John Keats’s writing is wrought with wonderings of the human condition and tragedy due to the amount of suffering he endured in his lifetime; the themes in his poetry tend to be directed at understanding the hardships that people face. TOPIC SENTENCE. John Keats was born on December 31, 1795 ("John Keats"). In 1803, he and his brother George were sent to study at Ensfield Academy, where he was well liked ("John Keats")."He was not merely the `favorite of all,' like a pet prize-fighter, for his terrier courage; but his high-mindedness, his

Keats had an exceptional home life until one fateful night in 1894 when his father fell off of his horse and was gravely injured; he died the next day. This was a huge blow, both financially and emotionally. In the two months after the tragedy, John’s mother Frances remarried. However, the marriage turned awry and Frances left with her children and brought them to her mother’s house ("John Keats"). Frances left to live with another man shortly after and did not return for four years. When she did finally return, she was very ill and soon died of tuberculosis ("John Keats"). Even before his mother’s demise his grandmother, Alice Jennings, was largely alone in taking care of the Keats children: Thomas, George, John, and Fanny. Jennings had inherited a considerable sum of money from her deceased husband. She wished to ensure the financial security of the Keats children and she entrusted the money to a tea merchant, Richard Abbey. This proved to be a mistake; he