ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -John Keats (1795-1821), who trained as a surgeon-apothecary at Guy’s Hospital Medical School in 1815-6, is renowned as one of the most significant English Romantic poets . John was born on Moorgate, London and attended John Clarke’s school in Enfield.

Detailed explanation-2: -Medical training and writing poetry Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Silent, upon a peak in Darien. In October 1815, having finished his 5 year apprenticeship with Hammond, Keats registered as a medical student at Guy’s Hospital (now part of King’s College London) and began studying there.

Detailed explanation-3: -Keats left Enfield in 1811, and, perhaps at Abbey’s urging-though Clarke remembered it as Keats’s choice-he began to study for a career as a surgeon. He was apprenticed to a respected surgeon, Thomas Hammond, in a small town near Enfield, Edmonton, where his grandmother lived.

Detailed explanation-4: -John Keats was born and baptised in the City of London in 1795. After education in Enfield and an apprenticeship in Edmonton, he trained to be a doctor at Guy’s Hospital before giving up a career in medicine to become a poet.

Detailed explanation-5: -John Keats was an English Romantic lyric poet whose verse is known for its vivid imagery and great sensuous appeal. His reputation grew after his early death, and he was greatly admired in the Victorian Age.