A short biography of John Keats

You've probably heard of John Keats, but he's more than the simpering Romantic poet we're familiar with. Learn more about Keats's brief life, from his grisly duties as surgeon's assitant to the turbulent romance with the woman he loved. See our video on consumption here:    • Why people thought tuberculosis was hot   Written, presented, and edited by Rosie Whitcombe @books_ncats Twitter & Instagram Directed, produced, and edited by Matty Phillips @ma_ps_ Twitter & Instagram https://mphotos.uk/ Bibliography Gibson Lockhart, John, ‘The Cockney School of Poetry, No. IV’, in Blackwood’s Magazine, 1817-25: Selections from Maga’s Infancy, ed. by Tom Mole, 6 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006) Keats, John, The Letters of John Keats, ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins, 2 vols. (Cambridge: CUP, 2011) Monckton Milnes, Richard, Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats, 2 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1848) Motion, Andrew, Keats (London: Faber, 1997) Roe, Nicholas, John Keats: A New Life (Cornwall: Yale University Press, 2013) Stillinger, Jack, ‘The “story” of Keats’, The Cambridge Companion to John Keats, ed. by Susan J. Wolfson (Cambridge: CUP, 2001) pp. 246-60 Extra citations from The Letters of John Keats, vol. 2: 'confess if your heart is too much fasten'd on the world [...] confess to me how many things are necessary to you besides me' p. 291 'I cannot live without you, and not only you; but chaste you; virtuous you' p. 304 'Let me be but certain that you are mine heart and soul, and I could die more happily than I could otherwise live' pp. 293-4 'You must be mine to die upon the rack if I want you' p. 291 'If you could really what is call'd enjoy yourself at a Party [...] you never have not ever will love me' p. 291 'You are to me an object intensely desirable--the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy' p. 304 'Do not think of anything but me' p. 290