John Keats had a passion for reading and medicine. He didn’t write poetry until he was 18 years old. He felt he was going to die early and “applied himself to his art with desperate urgency.” His works were brutalized by political and snobbish critics. His great promise was cut short and he could have been even more extraordinary as he stopped writing at age 24. His writing and phrases reminded his friends of William Shakespeare. He wrestled with evil and suffering in the world. He died at the age of 25 of tuberculosis.
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