English poet. The eldest child of Thomas Keats and the former Frances Jennings, John Keats (keets) was born in the living quarters of the family’s London business, the Swan and Hoop Stables. He had three brothers, George, Thomas, and Edward (who died in childhood), and a sister, Frances Mary. By all accounts, the family was lively and affectionate, and John’s earliest years were probably happy. However, the Keats family fortunes received a disastrous shock with the death of John’s father... więcej

Salem Press Biographical Encyclopedia, 2020. 4p.