John Keats almost became a doctor. At 15, he was taken out of school by his guardian and apprenticed to an apothecary in Enfield. At 19, he registered at Guy's Hospital in London. Within a month, he was assisting surgeons during operations, doing work equivalent of a junior house surgeon today.

On the anniversary of his death, 10 things you might not know about John Keats:

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Helped a student with analyzing #JohnKeats's "When I have fears that I may cease to be." I am reminded that one of the reasons I love the sound of his poems is the way he braids complementary vowel sounds into his lines. #Poetry

Helped a student with analyzing #JohnKeats's "When I have fears that I may cease to be." I am reminded that one of the reasons I love the sound of his poems is the way he braids complementary vowel sounds into his lines. #Poetry

Negative Capability, that is, when a [person] is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason -- Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge.

- John Keats

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"I am certain of nothing
but the holiness of the heart's affections
and the #truth of #imagination."

- #JohnKeats 💮

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