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
The Corporation of the City of London In a house on this site, the "Swan & H...
The house which stood on this site was built in the late 17th century. Later ...
John Keats, poet, lived in this house. B: 1795. D: 1821. {Almost hidden in t...
On this site, poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, apothecar...
Unveiled by Andrew Motion, author of a Keats biography. The quotation comes ...
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John Keats
From the inscriptions it seems that the obelisk was created as a WW1 memorial...
Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of t...
