4. Family Troubles
• Sibling died in infancy
• Father died at age 8
• Moved in with Grandparents
• Mother died when he was 14
• Brother Tom died
• Brother George moved
5. Financial Troubles
• Richard Abbey became guardian
• Poetry not a job for the middle
class
• Poverty prevented marriage
• Grandfather died
• Vague will
• Grandmother died 1814
6. Fanny Brawne
• Met in 1818
• Soon after became engaged
• Couldn’t afford to support a wife
• Kept engagement a secret
• Last saw her in September 1820
“….whenever you know me to be alone, come, no matter what day."
7. Poetic Career
• Started 1814- Imitated
Elizabethan poets
• 1816 met with Richard
Abbey
• Published in 1817
• Settled in Hampstead
8.
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10. Death
• Died peacefully in bed
• Two year battle with
Tuberculosis
• Died 1821, 26 years old
11. “I know the color of that blood; it is arterial blood. I cannot be deceived in
that color. That drop of blood is my death warrant. I must die”
12. Works Cited
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<http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/keats/keats.html>.
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