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Ever since early man drew on cave walls we have attempted to express our inner artistic souls in song, art and words (or in their case grunts). We all have a bit of the artist in us; it is simply more developed in some individuals than in others. Discover how creative you are by taking our “Do Have the Soul of a Poet” test. You will have great fun, ask a friend to take the quiz with you and double the fun.

John Keats, born in 1795, published three books of poetry in his lifetime, but was dismissed as a middle-class intruder by many critics. One historian says, “He had no advantages of birth, wealth or education, he lost his parents in childhood, watched one brother die of tuberculosis and the other travel to America. Poverty kept him from marrying the woman he loved. And he achieved lasting fame only after his early death in 1821” (www.englishhistory.net). See, another star-crossed love affair. Interesting, we may be onto something here (I saw the sweetest flower wild nature yields.)

Lord Bryan (George Gordon Bryan, born in 1788, was the most famous and controversial of this contemporaries. He was always a study in contrasts

A melancholy satirist, an aristocratic champion of the common man, handsome and adored but obsessed with a small personal deformity. He fled England to escape scandal and a failed marriage and died of fever in 1824 — (www.englishhistory.net).

Another love relationship turned sour. This theme seems to abound in literary poetrys. (Had sigh’d to many, thought he loved but one.)

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