Dear Year 12, I hope that you are having a productive and peaceful half-term. Thinking about keats, there are many places where you can go to find out a litle more if you want to open out your ideas about the poet.
Start off by checking a short biography like this one, which will give you the basic details of his life. There is no excuse for reading this--it is a page long. This will give you a framework for later research.
If you find that you are interested by this, then look at the website John Keats.com where you will find a useful biography page. This has short sections which hyperlink to the biography by Sir Sidney Calvin, which has an immense amount of detail. For instance, you can read here about the context of writing Lamia, which might illuminate certain aspects of that poem.
Watching Bright Star, beguiling though it might be, is not actually terrifically useful for the study of Keats, so if you feel compelled to find out more about his life, far more accurately interesting (though without the beautiful pictures) is to look at his letters. This site (English History) gives you routes through the letter chronologically and thematically, and is ideal for a quiet autumnal browse.
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