John Keats Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq

In “Dedication. To Leigh Hunt, Esq.” John Keats states his gratitude to Hunt, he did this because Hunt helped shape Keats into a mature poet and even helped him become known by publishing Keats’s work in his newspaper The Examiner.
John Keats’s parents died when he was very young, this could have inspired “When I have fears that I may cease to be” this poem has a pessimistic, worried tone and lays out the prospect of an untimely death, similar to his parents’ fate.
Fanny Brawne was unequivocally the woman Keats is referring to in “Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art” Keats writes about his obsession with Brawne and the desire to be in a state of stillness to keep her with him for eternity.
John Keats frequently visited museums and
historical monuments, one visit was to the Elgin Marbles, after this trip he chronicled his experience in “On seeing the Elgin Marbles” talking about the immortality of the stories surrounding the structures, while also realizing his small part in the world. John Keats and a friend, Charles Cowden Clarke, read George Chapman’s translation of the works of Homer in one night in October, Keats then writes the poem “On the first looking into Chapman's Homer” telling of his amazement with the work.