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John Keats: five poets on his best poems, 200 years since his death


John Keats, portrait by Joseph Severn, c1821-1823. Illustration: Alamy
John Keats, portrait by Joseph Severn, c1821-1823. Illustration: Alamy
From Ode to a Nightingale to Modern Love, Ruth Padel, Will Harris, Mary Jean Chan, Rachel Long and Seán Hewitt choose their favourites
Tue 23 Feb 2021 00.00 EST
Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 07.33 EST
Ode to a Nightingale (1819)
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
         My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
         One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
         But being too happy in thine happiness, ....

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Why Keats's haunting reflections on tuberculosis resonate in the age of Covid-19


He knew that the persistent cough spelled his end. The fever had preceded it, just as it had in his mother, brother and dozens around him. The contagion that was devastating society had him in its throes. When he finally died, a postmortem showed his lungs had been decimated. He’d suffocated, drowning in his own inflammatory fluids. The young English poet John Keats died aged just 25 in Rome on 23 February 1821, having been diagnosed with tuberculosis, or consumption as it was then known, just over a year before. In 1819, inspired by his medical training and acute observation of his disease, Keats captured the essence of its impact on society. ....

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