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Feb 4, 2015 · Fanny Brawne (1800-1865) was first Keats’s neighbor and later his fiancée. The eldest child of a widowed mother, she at first perplexed and exasperated the poet. They fell in love, though Keats’s friends were against the match. Summary: Keats’s letters to Fanny Brawne are among the most famous love letters ever written.
Feb 19, 2016 · Exactly a year after John Keats (October 31, 1795–February 23, 1821) extolled the joys of being single, he fell in love. Fanny Brawne wasn’t beautiful by conventional standards, but she possessed enchanting erudition, a pair of intense blue eyes, and a disarming smile.
My dear love, I cannot believe there ever was or ever could be any thing to admire in me especially as far as sight goes—I cannot be admired, I am not a thing to be admired. You are, I love you; all I can bring you is a swooning admiration of your Beauty.
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There is good reason to thinkthat the lady to whom the followingletters were addressed did not, towardsthe end of her life, regardtheir ultimate publication as unlikely;and it is by her family thatthey have been entrusted to theeditor, to be arranged and preparedfor the press. The owners of these letters reserveto themselves all rights ofreproducti...
The happy circumstance that thefifty-seventh year since you watched atthe death-bed of Keats finds you stillamong us, makes it impossible to inscribeany other name than yours infront of these letters, intimately connectedas they are with the decline of the poet’slife, concerning the latter part of whichyou alone have full knowledge. It cannot be bu...
Transcriber’s Note: Despite the date on the title page, this is the 1888edition (see date at end of introduction). The front matter from theprior edition of 1878 seems to have been carried across to this onewithout being fully checked and updated. This edition doesn’t have anindex, and the Appendix about Wentworth Place isn’t on page 111.
The sympathetic and discerning biographerof John Keats says, in thememoir prefixed to Moxon’s edition ofthe Poems, “The publication of threesmall volumes of verse, some earnestfriendships, one profound passion, anda premature death are the main incidentshere to be recorded.” Thesewords have long become “householdwords,” at all events in the househo...
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The daughter who caught Keats’s attention was Fanny Brawne, Keats’s neighbor. Keats and Brawne soon fell in love, and their star-crossed relationship, thwarted by Keats’s death in 1821, inspired many of Keats’s most well-known poems, including “Bright Star,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” and “Ode to a Nightingale.”.
Brawne’s mother promised Keats that when he returned to England, he could live with them and Brawne. With Brawne’s permission, Keats destroyed the letters she had written him. Keats gave her several of his books and a miniature, and Brawne gave him a new pocket-book, a knife, and a lock of her hair.
