John Keats House
"The
cheerful letters which Keats writes to his sister;
the admonitions to his friends to wear warm
wraps; the notes sent in to Miss Brawne, who
lived in the adjoining house, these lighten the
atmosphere with idyllic charm. A sofa bed is
made for him in the front parlor, so that he may
escape the monotony of four posts and curtains
upstairs. Through the window he looks out on
the landscape of the Heath, longing for spring
sunshine. He watches the passers-by : the French
aristocrat in exile, the clock-mender, the gypsies,
the workingwomen in red cloaks, the two elderly
maidens with their lap-dog, fearful of Brawne's
Carlo. The doctors have told him that his trouble
is only nervous irritability and general weakness ;
they have prescribed tangents, squares and angles
as a sedative for his mind. But his thoughts
dwell, preferably, on green fields and flowers —
English wild-flowers."
Extract from "John Keats" (Open Library)
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