Subject

John Keats

Person   Born 31/10/1795 Died 23/2/1821

Categories: Poetry, Seriously Famous

Countries: Italy

Born 24 Moorfields Pavement Row, Finsbury. Baptised at St Botolphs.  1815-16 trained at Guy’s Hospital and qualified as a surgeon-apothecary, but his interests lay in literature and poetry.  Died of consumption in Rome where he is buried in the Protestant Cemetery.

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John Keats

John Keats, poet, lived in this house. B: 1795. D: 1821. Erected by the Soci...

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John Keats birthplace

The Corporation of the City of London In a house on this site, the "Swan & H...

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Keats and Stephens

On this site, poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, apothecar...

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Keats statue at Guy's Hospital

Unveiled by Andrew Motion, author of a Keats biography.

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St Botolph's information board

The church has two information boards, both of a standard design, which we wo...

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Creations

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Hampstead War Memorial

From the inscriptions it seems that the obelisk was created as a WW1 memorial...

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