John Keats was born in 1795 to Thomas and Frances Keats. He and his siblings spent most of their early years with their grandmother but were eventually “remanded to the guardianship of a practical businessman” after their mother died (Damrosch and Dettmar 973). This man apprenticed Keats to a London hospital surgeon, and Keats obtained a license as an apothecary. In 1816, when Keats came of age, he abandoned the world of medicine in favor of the realm of poetry. Keats’s most famous works include his Odes of 1819, Lamia (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes (1820), and La Belle Dame sans Mercy (1820). He wrote his longest work, a 4,000-line poem called Endymion, in 1817 as part of a contest with Leigh Hunt and Percy Bysshe Shelley. John Keats’s career lasted from 1814-1820 when he died of tuberculo