Written in the Cottage Where Burns Was Born E-book
Author: John Keats
Genre: Literature, Poetry
Keats, John (1795-1821) - Widely regarded as the most talented of the
English romantic poets, Keats, whose work was poorly received during his
lifetime, could not have foreseen his later recognition. Ironically, he
wrote for his own epitaph: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Written in the Cottage Where Burns Was Born (1818) - Keats destroyed this
poem, but it survives through a copy made by a friend. The opening line
predicts Keats' own death: This mortal body of a thousand days ...
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