"Love is my religion—I could die for that": the bicentenary of the death of English poet John Keats (1795–1821)
“Love is my religion—I could die for that”: the bicentenary of the death of English poet John Keats (1795–1821) On February 21, 1821, the 25-year-old English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome. To mark the bicentenary, the British School at Rome streamed a production of Pelé Cox’s 2014 play Lift Me Up, I Am Dying about the poet’s last weeks, as he was tended to by the artist Joseph Severn. Posthumous portrait of John Keats by William Hilton. National Portrait Gallery, Lo...
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