John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… defend his genius and preserve his memory for posterity. Friendship was always central to Keats’s life; his poetry and letters attest to a vitally social existence, and to the lasting influence of London literary coteries on his development … over how best to make his genius known to posterity. The publication, in 1848, of Richard Monckton Milnes’s Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats , which brought together 66 poems and some 80 letters by the poet, along with a brief biography, was a crucial step in debunking the false image of Keats as a sickly, …
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