John Keats, an English romantic poet born on 31st October, 1795 in London. In his short lifetime he published 3 books of poetry.  He lost his parents at the very early stage of his life. Richard Abbey and John Rowland Sandell were the two London merchants who were appointed by the Keats’s maternal grandmother as his guardians. At the age of fifteen he was withdrew from the Clarke school by Abbey to apprentice with an apothecary surgeon. He also studied medicine in London hospital and became a licensed apothecary. However, he never practiced this profession instead he started writing poetry.

Keats has written some of the best poetry in between the year 1818 and 1819. He also worked on the “Hyperion” which was Miltonic blank verse epic myth of the Greek creation. His third and the best volume of his poetry were published in July 1820 namely Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems.

The “Hyperion” could not be fully completed by him but it was considered as one of his greatest achievement by the Keats’s contemporaries. He reached at an advanced stage of the disease by this time and could barely write. Keats died on 23rd February, 1821 at the age of twenty five.