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The Poet and the Dreamer; Though he died at 25, Keats left a body of verse for the ages.

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Date: 20080420
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POSTHUMOUS KEATS

By Stanley Plumly

Norton. 379 pp. $25.95 At the end of November 1820, after more than a year of nursing an ailing stomach and succumbing to the ravages of consumption, John Keats wrote his friend Charles Brown, "I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence." It was not the first time that Keats had described this sensation in his letters, but it was the last. Less than three months later, the little-known and lowly regarded poet was dead. Feeling that he had failed to make a name for himself in his brief 25 years, he ...

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