. John Keats; a literary biography ... inishedletter to Brown that was never sent — and tosketch on the sheet, as a relief — arts relief fortragic realities — the symbolic figure of his owninexpressible grief. He is gone. He died with the greatest seemed to go to sleep. On Friday the 23rd, athalf-past four the approach of death came on. Severn — I — lift me up, for I am dying. I shalldie easy. Dont be frightened! Thank God ithas come. I lifted him up in my arms and thephlegm seemed boiling in his throat. This in-creased until eleven at night, when he gradually 215 JOHN KEATS sank into
. John Keats; a literary biography ... inishedletter to Brown that was never sent — and tosketch on the sheet, as a relief — arts relief fortragic realities — the symbolic figure of his owninexpressible grief. He is gone. He died with the greatest seemed to go to sleep. On Friday the 23rd, athalf-past four the approach of death came on. Severn — I — lift me up, for I am dying. I shalldie easy. Dont be frightened! Thank God ithas come. I lifted him up in my arms and thephlegm seemed boiling in his throat. This in-creased until eleven at night, when he gradually 215 JOHN KEATS sank into death, so quiet that I still thought heslept — but I cannot say more now. I am brokendown beyond my strength, I cannot be left have not slept for nine days, I will say the dayssince— On Saturday a gentleman came to castthe face, hand and foot. On Sunday the bodywas opened; the lungs were completely gone, thedoctors could not conceive how he had lived inthe last two months. Dr. Clark will write you onthis head —. XXIX POSTHUMOUS FAME The champaign with its endless fleeceOf feathery grasses everywhere!Silence and passion, joy and everlasting wash of air —Romes ghost since her decease. _L HE Protestant Cemetery is on the edge of theCampagna. For nineteen centuries the graypyramid of Cestius has guarded the spot. passed it by on his way to martyrdom. HereKeats lies in the shadow of the pagan is pleasant to think that the ashes of Shelleylie close beside him. For Shelley only, of all thecontemporaries, delivered the judgment thatcame in the fullness of time. The Adonaisis prophecy come literally true. The first reception of this elegy shows that evendeath could not mollify the enemy. Black-woods parodied the Adonais in an Elegyon a Tomcat. It asserted that a hundred thou-sand such verses could be easily written, and 217 JOHN KEATS granted the poem only five readable lines. Whenthe news came of Shelleys own tragic end, thefact that h
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