John Keats - The Bright Star I FULL Biography Documentary

 

John Keats died at 25, convinced he had failed. A poor apothecary’s apprentice, mocked by the critics as a “Cockney” upstart, he was dead within four years of publishing his first poem. Today he is remembered as one of the greatest poets in the English language.

Keats’s life was a long rehearsal for his own death. He lost his father to a riding accident, then watched tuberculosis take his mother and his brother Tom. He trained as a surgeon, and on a February night in 1820 he looked at a single drop of blood on his bed sheet and diagnosed his own death sentence. What followed was a doomed love affair, brutal reviews, a desperate journey to Rome, and a grave marked with a line that still haunts readers: “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”

This documentary traces the real life of John Keats, from his devastating childhood losses to the brief, blazing years in which he wrote some of the finest poetry ever written. This is the true story of John Keats. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In this documentary: Keats’s childhood of loss From the surgeon’s table to poetry Leigh Hunt and the Cockney School Endymion and the critics who mocked him Nursing Tom Keats through consumption Fanny Brawne and the love he couldn’t have The night he coughed blood and diagnosed himself The final voyage to Rome with Joseph Severn

“Writ in water”: the grave, Adonais, and the myth that a review killed him