Keats's grandfather Jennings; his father and mother; Keats
born in London, October 31, 1795; his brothers and sister;
goes to the school of John Clarke at Enfield, and is tutored
o3by Charles Cowden Clarke; death of his parents; is
apprenticed to a surgeon, Hammond; leaves Hammond,
and studies surgery; reads Spenser, and takes to poetry;
his literary acquaintances — Leigh Hunt, Haydon, J.
Hamilton Reynolds, Dilke, &c.; Keats's first volume,
"Poems," 1817
Keats begins "Endymion," May 1817; his health suffers in
Oxford; finishes "Endymion" in November; his friend,
Charles Armitage Brown; his brother George marries
and emigrates to America; Keats and Brown make a
walking tour in Scotland and Ireland; returns to Hamp-
stead, owing to a sore throat; death of his brother Tom;
his description of Miss Cox ("Charmian "), and of Miss
Brawne, with whom he falls in love; a difference with