John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
… but he was certainly 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 … in an October 1817 letter to Benjamin Bailey which details the sometimes fraught relationships between members of the Hunt Circle. 1 The statement, like the letter from which it arises, is characteristic of Keats – the second-generation … ‘Lambs Conduit Street’ (where he delivered a package to two other friends), before going on to visit the homes of Leigh Hunt and Benjamin Robert Haydon (now ‘jealous Neighbours’), where he also saw Percy Bysshe Shelley (I, 168-69). In …
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