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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20061214
Author:Louise Jury

It is the house where the English Romantic poet John Keats composed Ode to a Nightingale and fell in love with the girl next door. And now, because of a [pound]424,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, it is to be restored in the style of the early 19th century, when Keats lived there not far from his fellow poets Byron, Shelley and Coleridge.

Experts have spent four years researching the decor and layout of what is now called Keats House, in Keats Grove, Hampstead, north London. They discovered that several ground floor rooms, particularly Keats' study and the so-called Chester Room, ...

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