On This Day May 5

John Keats was introduced to the literature of Edmund Spenser by the headmaster's son at Clarkes. Spenser's works, particularly The Faerie Queene, was to prove a turning point in Keats' development as a poet; it was to inspire Keats to write his first poem, "Imitation of Spenser" in 1814, when he was 19. On May 5, 1816 the radical Leigh Hunt’s liberal journal The Examiner published  Keats' sonnet "O Solitude" in his magazine. It was the first appearance in print of Keats's poetry.

Portrait of John Keats by William Hilton. 

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