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Symptoms of hereditary consumption, however, began to show themselves and, in the hope of restored health, he made a tour in the Lakes and Scotland, from which he returned to London none the better. The death soon after of his brother Thomas, whom he had helped to nurse, told upon his spirits, as did also his unrequited passion for Miss Fanny Brawne. In 1820 he pub.
Some of Keats' letters to Fanny Brawne are dated from 25 Great College Street, where he came on October 16, 1820, to lodgings, in order to conquer his great passion by absence; but apparently absence had only the proverbial effect. Walcott lived here, and his History of St. Margaret's Church and Memorials of Westminster are dated from here in 1847 and 1849 respectively.
He does not emphasize as he ought the debt we are under to Fanny Brawne as the intensifier of Keats's genius the "minx," as Keats irritably called her, who transformed him in a few months from a poet of still doubtful fame into a master and an immortal.
There is only one person, indeed, in all the Keats circle to whom one is more passionately grateful than to Cowden Clarke: that is Fanny Brawne. Keats no doubt had laboured to some purpose occasionally, to fine purpose with his genius before the autumn of 1818, when he met Fanny Brawne for the first time.
Success under such conditions would have been impossible unless he had had "flint and iron in him." He wrote: "I must think that difficulties nerve the spirit of a man. They make his Prime Objects a Refuge as well as a Passion." Late in 1818, after he had published his first volume of verse, he met Fanny Brawne, a girl of eighteen, and soon fell desperately in love with her.
His illness began with a severe cold, but soon developed into consumption; and added to this sorrow was another, his love for Fannie Brawne, to whom he was engaged, but whom he could not marry on account of his poverty and growing illness. When we remember all this personal grief and the harsh criticism of literary men, the last small volume, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.
Agnes Eve' without the book; because, given the circumstances, such as Fanny Brand, who is the key of the enigma, and approximately represents the latitude and longitude of Fanny Brawne; allowing also for the bright red colour of the arterial blood upon the handkerchief, which was just what you were puzzling over in the shop just now; and counting the effect of the professional environment, here almost perfectly duplicated the result is logical and inevitable.
But interesting as a chapter on Keats's friendships with men would be, we are bound to confess that in dramatic intensity it would grow pale when laid beside that fiery love passage of his life, his acquaintance with Fanny Brawne. The thirty-nine letters given in the fourth volume of Buxton Forman's edition of Keats's Works tell the story of this affair of a poet's heart.
His pathetic visage becomes irresistible. Then he speaks of that dinner party of stutterers and squinters described in the Spectator, and says that it would please him more 'to scrape together a party of lovers. If this letter be genuine and the date of it correctly given, it was written three months after he had succumbed to the attractions of Fanny Brawne.
The combined reagency of these relatives has given us what we have from no other English poet for the simple reason that no other English poet has had such a chance of giving it to us. The only thing to regret is that it could not continue longer: and that is only a necessary operation of Fate. The "Charmian" was at one time supposed to be Miss Brawne: but this was an error.
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