From your reading so far what seems to be Keats's chief strengths and preoccupations?

... From your reading so far what seems to be Keats's chief strengths and preoccupations? At the time when John Keats was born it was said that, 'poets are born, not made.' Poets at the time were either gentlemen from the upper class, or well educated with intellectual backgrounds. Keats's background, at the time, was definitely of the lower classes; he did not have any social advantages that many of his contemporary poets took for granted. As well as this, there was nothing, in his early life that was suggestive of his poetic talent. He had to be a self-made poet. Keats grew up in a time of upheaval in every way, a time of new political thinking, of social and humanitarian reform, a revolutionary time that had earlier spawned the French Revolution which in turned had strengthened the will to change everywhere in the early nineteenth century. These times brought with them

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