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GIVE ME WOMEN, WINE, AND SNUFF

Give me women, wine, and snuff
Untill I cry out "hold, enough!"
You may do so sans objection
Till the day of resurrection:
For, bless my beard, they aye shall be
My beloved Trinity.

Carismático poeta, representante del romanticismo inglés. Charismatic poet, representative of English Romanticism.
Nació en Londres en 1821 y allí estudió Medicina. John Keats was born in London, 1821, where he
En 1816 publicó sus primeros sonetos y se integró en un studied medicine.
círculo de figuras literarias entre las que se encontraba Shelley. In 1816, he published his first sonnets and joined a circle
Escribía sobre temas míticos y legendarios. of literary figures among whom he met Shelley. Keats
En 1817 publica su libro en sonetos: Poemas de John Kyats. wrote about mythical and legendary topics.
Endimión en 1818, adaptación de un mito griego. In 1817, he published his first book of sonnets, Poems
En 1820 se publicó el mejor de sus libros, Lamia. and, in 1818, Edymion, adaptation of a Greek myth.
Ese mismo año, muy enfermo, buscó el sol de Roma y allí The best of his books, Lamia, was published in 1820.
80 murió el 23 de febrero. Keats was advised to go to Italy by his doctors and,
there, he died on 23rd February.
Otros poemas suyos son: Víspera de san Marcos, Isabella,
la víspera de santa Inés… Other poems are The Eve of St Marks, Isabella, The
Eve of St Agnes..