| property | value |
|---|---|
| created | $=dv.current().file.ctime |
| modified | =this.modified |
| Keats did not have the money to present himself as a proper suitor to Fanny in society. He wrote with hope that his next book would provide. |
Whenever Keats and Fanny were alone she wore his ring on her engagement finger, and when in company on her middle finger.
The mortally ailing Keats would never see Fanny again.
The last letters of Keats to his friend Brown make almost unbearable reading. He was tormented by visions of Fanny and fears of his approaching death that would separate them for ever. Fanny’s letters to Keats have not survived, the one she wrote to him in Italy were buried with him, unopened.
Is there another life?… There must be, we cannot be created for this kind of suffering. When Fanny was told of Keats’s death, the effect on her was terrible. The 20 year old cut her hair short and spent three years in widow’s black, roaming the paths on the Heath where she and Keats had walked together.
I kiss’d your writing over in the hope you had indulged me by leaving a trace of honey.
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had the time I would have made myself remember’d.