"The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreables evaporate from their being in close relationship with Beauty and Truth."
John Keats
John Keats was born October 31, 1795. Keats published three books of poetry during his lifetime, but was dismissed as a middle-class interloper by most critics. He had no advantages of birth, wealth, or education; he lost his parents during his childhood, watched one brother die of tuberculosis and the other emigrate to America. Poverty kept him from marrying the woman he loved. And he achieved lasting fame only after his…
