It is said that Keats's for Frances Brawne inspired the most productive period of his life as a poet. Below is the ring Keats gave to Fanny before he died in Rome 💜

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🖼️ Keats House, City of London Corporation, K/AR/01/018 & K/PZ/05/028.

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It's Saturday 24 February 1821, and news has come in overnight from Rome of the death of the young English poet, John Keats. He'd been suffering from consumption [tuberculosis] and had gone to Italy last year in the hope its warmer climate would benefit his health.

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Alone and palely loitering - poets on
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‘Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul’

200 years ago in 1821, John Keats died in Rome aged just 25.

Follow for news marking his incredible life & talent today

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“The very thing which I want to live most for will be a great occasion of my death…I wish for death every day and night...and then I wish death away, for death would destroy even those pains which are better than nothing."

—John Keats, 30 September 1820

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'Lamia reflects Keats’s career-long preoccupation with exoticism, beauty, love, death, and poetry itself'. 200 yrs ago (or c. 1 July 1820!), Keats publishes Lamia in his last volume - a new Blog post by https://t.co/rEYqFpDVvs

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Keats's poem 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' was published 200 years ago in May 1820 (specifically May 10, so 200 years this Sunday!). To celebrate, will present some online lectures to mark the occasion. Full details on our Blog https://t.co/nZqsDzn9S3

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“I never knew before what such a love as you have made me feel was. I did not believe in it…But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, ‘twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.”

—John Keats, 8 July 1819

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