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Keats encounters

he great romantic poet John Keats died on 23 February, 1821, at the age of 25, his body racked by then-incurable tuberculosis. Despite his young age, he had already studied for a career as an apothecary and surgeon, and then given up medicine in order to write poetry. The result is a body of work consisting of around 150 poems that have touched the hearts of readers for 200 years, and a place among the greatest of English poets.

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