John Keats
Next to Stainer Street, off Tooley Street is Weston Street. Both are among the gloomiest places in London. At this part of their route they became road tunnels under the mainline station as it expanded over the years. In the early nineteenth century, before the station was built, John Keats lived in Weston Street, at that time called Dean Street, when a medical student at Guy's Hospital. It was here that he wrote the poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".
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