The Soft-Dying Day

            John Keats, the greatest poet-physician in the English language, descended on Georgian London like a meteor, flaring brightly before burning out. By his early twenties the “cockney” poet (Keats was born to a Moorfields livery stables manager) had written some of the most sublimely beautiful Romantic lyrics. Yet his career was cut short at …

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