FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
JOHN KEATS
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31
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25
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29
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20
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Detailed explanation-1: -Today marks the day in 1821 when John Keats, the Romantic poet who waxed on Grecian urns and nightingales, succumbed to tuberculosis. He was only 25.
Detailed explanation-2: -The story goes that in early February of 1820 he caught a fever and had a haemorrhage-coughed up blood-and by virtue of his medical training, Keats deemed this was arterial blood, thus signifying what he construed as his ‘death-warrant’.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Keats passed away on the 23rd February 1821, aged just 25. In the afternoon he uttered his last words ‘Severn-I–lift me up–I am dying–I shall die easy–don’t be frightened–be firm, and thank God it has come!
Detailed explanation-4: -An autopsy was performed 2 days after Keats died in Rome (23 February 1821).