John Keats, Poet and Surgeon Poet John Keats died tragically early, in 1821, at the age of 25, of tuberculosis.But few people are aware that he crowded two careers into his brief life: he studied medicine and was trained in surgery for as many years as he wrote poetry.Even people who know of Keats's early training have assumed that he was pushed into medicine against his will, resented it and left it as soon as possible.
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