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Poetry Of John Keats: Early Life And Schooling

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Keats, John

Keats, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Early Life And Schooling:

John Keats was born in a northern suburb of London on October 31, 1795.
His parents were the keepers of a prosperous livery stable called the "Swan
and Hoop," and young John, the eldest of four surviving children, together
with his brothers George and Tim and his sister Frances, seems to have lived
a happy and uneventful life for his first seven or eight years. Then, very
suddenly, disaster struck the family. Keats' father died in a riding accident,
his mother quickly remarried and then left her new husband and her children,
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