John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley. He was born on 31 October 1795, in Moorgate, London. His father was Thomas Keats and his mother was Frances Jennings, he also had three younger siblings: George, Thomas, and Frances Mary. Actually he also had another brother was lost in infancy.

During 1820 Keats displayed increasingly serious symptoms of tuberculosis, suffering two lung hemorrhages in the first few days of February.On first coughing up blood, on 3 February 1820, he said to Charles Armitage Brown, «I know the colour of that blood! It is arterial blood.I cannot be deceived in that colour. That drop of blood is my death warrant. I must die». He finally died on 23 February, 1821,at the age of 25 from the disease of tuberculosis.