John Keats

John Keats was born in London on 31 October 1795. His parents died at a young age and he decided to pursue a career in medicine, though he soon developed a love for writing poetry.

His first collection of poetry, simply titled Poems, was a critical and commercial failure but he went on to compose celebrated works like 'Ode to Nightingale' and 'Lamia' that have become synonymous with the second generation of English romantic poetry.

He died of tuberculosis on 23 February 1821, aged only twenty-five.