John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… not friendless. Although his work received little public recognition during his lifetime, his close circle of friends in England strove to defend his genius and preserve his memory for posterity. Friendship was always central to Keats’s life; … haemorrhage left him bedridden in February 1820, Keats was forced to stop writing poetry, and eventually to leave England for a more salubrious Mediterranean climate. The poet’s steadfast supporters – which included his publishers, … days, while ensuring the social bonds he valued most be maintained from abroad. In the journal-letters he sent back to England, which would be passed around and ‘interread’ (to borrow a Keatsian turn of phrase [II, 173]) amongst what is now …
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