[Gutenberg 60433] • Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne / Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts

[Gutenberg 60433] • Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne / Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts
Authors
Keats, John
Publisher
Penguin Books
Tags
1795-1821 -- correspondence , john , poets , keats , romance , fanny , 1800-1865 -- correspondence , classics , english -- 19th century -- correspondence , brawne , poetry
ISBN
9780143117742
Date
2009-09-02T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.40 MB
Lang
en
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***I have two luxuries to brood over...your Loveliness and the hour of my death** *

Though John Keats (1795-1821) died when he was just twenty-five years old, he left behind some of the most exquisite and moving poetry ever written.

He also left an incredibly beautiful and tender collection of love letters, inspired by his great love for Fanny Brawne. Although they knew each other for just a few short years and spent a great deal of that time due to Keats' worsening illness, which forced him to live abroad, Keats wrote again and again about Fanny--his very last poem is called simply "To Fanny"--and wrote love letters to her constantly. She, in turn, would wear the ring he had given her until her death.

This remarkable volume contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion, and is a dazzling display of a talent cruelly cut short.