ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Today marks the day in 1821 when John Keats, the Romantic poet who waxed on Grecian urns and nightingales, succumbed to tuberculosis. He was only 25. John was thought to have contracted the infection while taking care of his critically ill brother Tom, who died in 1819.

Detailed explanation-2: -The young English poet John Keats died aged just 25 in Rome on 23 February 1821, having been diagnosed with tuberculosis, or consumption as it was then known, just over a year before.

Detailed explanation-3: -The story goes that in early February of 1820 he caught a fever and had a haemorrhage-coughed up blood-and by virtue of his medical training, Keats deemed this was arterial blood, thus signifying what he construed as his ‘death-warrant’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Born in 1795 above a stable in London, Keats died of tuberculosis at the age of 26 in Rome. In that relatively short span of time, Keats experienced deprivation, hardship, a great romantic love, a meteoric rise to fame and devastating loss.

Detailed explanation-5: -In his short life he experienced the loss of his father to an accident, his mother and youngest brother Tom to tuberculosis, and his second brother, George, to America. He was separated from his sister by her guardian, was always short of money, and though conscious of his talent, not always confident of success.