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“Ah yes, Keats. The young Romantic poet upstart who, like Shelley, did not survive his twenties. It’s enough to make you weep to think that Shelley had a volume of Keats’s latest volume of poems in his shirt pocket the day he drowned off the coast of Italy, desolating Mary Shelley. Unlike the other Romantics, who were either grammar-school boys or aristocrats, Keats came essentially from nothing. At fourteen, he left school and apprenticed to an apothecary.” Read more...
Gillen D'Arcy Wood, Literary Scholar
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Willam Blake: Selected Poetry
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The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry
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