John Taylor
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English publisher, essayist, and writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Taylor was an English publisher, essayist, and writer. He is noted as the publisher of the poets John Keats and John Clare. Life He was born in East Retford, Nottinghamshire, the son of James Taylor and Sarah Drury; his father was a printer and bookseller. He attended school first at Lincoln Grammar School and then he went to the local grammar school in Retford. He was originally apprenticed to his father, but eventually he moved to London and worked for James Lackington in 1803. Taylor left after a short while because of low pay.