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Baraka_Guru · 06-29-2009, 11:27 AM

John Keats, poet of the second Romantic Age (1795 - 1821)

He died of TB at the tender age of 26.

If you look at his canon of poetry and gauge its depth, quality, and temper that with its volume, it's hard not to think, "Damn it. He produced that within a span of 6 or 7 years, and all by his mid-twenties?!"

I cannot even fathom what he would have produced had he fully developed his powers.

/book nerd

06-29-2009, 11:27 AM	#7 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	John Keats, poet of the second Romantic Age (1795 - 1821) He died of TB at the tender age of 26. If you look at his canon of poetry and gauge its depth, quality, and temper that with its volume, it's hard not to think, "Damn it. He produced that within a span of 6 or 7 years, and all by his mid-twenties?!" I cannot even fathom what he would have produced had he fully developed his powers. /book nerd __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 06-30-2009 at 02:47 AM..