Keats Personal Context

Question 1

Keats parents

Answer 1

Father dies on a horse riding accident

Mother died of consumption

Question 2

His brother

Answer 2

Gets consumption- Keats nurses him

Question 3

Career

Answer 3

Passed medical examinations to become a surgeon- decides to focus entirely on his poetry which earns him very little money

Question 4

Fanny Brawne

Answer 4

Keats love- cannot marry her due to his lack of wealth and tuberculosis- they communicate by letter

Question 5

Leigh hunt

Answer 5

Revolutionary, radical-imprisoned for his writing in his mag against royal family and political structure- political arm of the romantic movement

Question 6

Influence of Shakespeare

Answer 6

Saw his dark intelligence of human nature and adopted idea of negative capability

Question 7

Wealth and class

Answer 7

Lived his life in poverty being supported and sheltered by other romantics- made very little money from poetry. Theme of class prominent in many poems