Tuesday, October 25, 2011

News at Eleven: This story cannot end happily,

and indeed it does not. Although John [Keats] dreamed of someday visiting George and his wife in America, in the winter of 1821 he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. However much he had fallen headlong "quickly and irreversibly" in love with a flirtatious eighteen-year-old named Fanny Brawne, George was the great love of his life. In any case, John's poverty and ruined health assured that his romance with Fanny was doomed from the start.

from Barnes and Noble Review: The Keats Brothers

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