John+Keats

__ Keats’ Chronology __  **1795 –** (31st October) John Keats born at Moorgate **–** Poems include sonnet on Leigh Hunt’s release from jail **–** Meets Fanny Brawne. **–** //Quarterly Review// attacks //Endymion//. **–** Begins //Hyperion// **–** Tom dies of tuberculosis
 * 1797 –** Birth of George Keats
 * 1799 –** Birth of Tom Keats
 * 1800 –** Birth of Fanny Browne
 * 1803 –** Birth of Fanny (Frances Mary) Keats.
 * –** John Keats attends school at Enfield
 * 1804 –** Keats father dies.
 * –** His mother re-marries.
 * –** The Keats children move to their grandparents’ home.
 * 1805 –** Grandfather dies
 * 1810 –** Mother dies of tuberculosis
 * 1811 –** Keats leaves school to become apothecary’s - Apothecary is a historical name for a medical professional who formulates and dispenses medical material to physicians, surgeons and patients — a role now served by a pharmacist (or, especially in British English, a chemist or dispensing chemist) - apprentice
 * 1814 –** Early attempts at verse
 * 1815 –** Death of grandmother.
 * –** Also enters ‘Guy’s Hospital’ as a student.
 * 1816 –** ‘Sonnet O’ Solitude’ published.
 * –** Qualifies as apothecary.
 * –** Writes ‘Chapman’s Homer’ Sonnet’.
 * –** Meets Hunt, Hayden and Reynolds.
 * 1817 –** Moves to Hampstead.
 * –** First book, //Poems// published.
 * –** Writes //Endymion//.
 * –** Meets Wordsworth and Lamb at Hayden’s ‘Immortal Dinner’.
 * 1818 –** //Endymion// published.
 * –** Tours Lakes and Scotland.

**–** Becomes engaged to Fanny Brawne **–** (July) //Lamia// volume published **–** (September) Sails for Italy with Severn. **–** (October) Arrives at Naples. **–** (November) Arrives in Rome.
 * 1819 –** Writes ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’, ‘La Belle Dame’ and the major odes, including ‘To Autumn’.
 * –** Abandons //Hyperion//.
 * –**Writes //Otho.//
 * 1820 –** (February) Severe haemorrhage.
 * 1821 –** (23rd February) Dies of tuberculosis

__ Keats Chronology  __ __ -Other events during his lifetime-  __ ** 1789 ** – French Revolution ** 1793 ** –Reign of Terror: Louis XVI guillotined – France declares war on Britain ** 1793 – 1800 ** – Repressive measures in England by Pitt’s Government ** 1794 ** –Blake: ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’ – Paine: ‘Age of Reason’ – Mrs. Radcliff: ‘Mysteries of Udolpho ** 1797 ** – Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’ written ** 1798 ** – Wordsworth and Coleridge: ‘Lyrical Ballads’ ** 1799 ** – Napoleon becomes First Consul of France ** 1799 – 1800 ** – Combination Acts ** 1800 ** – Volta invents electric battery ** 1804 ** – Napoleon proclaimed Emperor ** 1805 ** – Nelson victorious at Trafalgar – Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz – Wordsworth: ‘the Prelude’ ** 1808 ** – Goethe: ‘Faust, Part I’  ** 1809 ** – Darwin born – Tennyson born ** 1810 ** – George III becomes increasingly insane – Crabbe: ‘The Borough’ ** 1811 ** – Prince of Wales becomes Regent ** 1811 – 1812 ** – Luddite riots ** 1812 ** – Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow – Charles Dickens born – Byron: ‘Childe Harold (I and II)’ ** 1813 ** – Jane Austen: ‘Pride and Prejudice – Leigh Hunt begins two – years prison sentence ** 1814 ** – Scott: ‘Waverley’ – Edmund Kean gains fame ** 1815 ** – Napoleon defeated at Waterloo – End of war between Britain and France ** 1816 ** – Shelley: ‘Alastor’ – Hunt: Story of Rimini – Coleridge: ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘Christabel’ published ** 1817 ** – Jane Austen dies – Kean acts Richard III – Blackwood’s attacks the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’ ** 1818 ** – Hazlitt lectures on poetry – Karl Marx born ** 1819 ** – George Eliot born – ‘Peterloo’ Massacre – Richard Carlile jailed – Victoria born ** 1819 – 1824 ** – Byron: ‘Don Juan’ published ** 1820 ** – Birth of Engels – Death of George III – Prince Regent becomes George IV    – Shelley writes ‘Ode to Liberty’ and ‘To a Skylark’ ** 1821 ** – Shelley’s Adonais – Death of Napoleon