John Keats, an English Romantic poet, dies of TB at the age of 25 in 1821.
John Keats was an English poet who, together with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, was a member of the second generation of Romantic poets. By the end of the century, he had been accepted into the canon of English literature and had served as an inspiration for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, influencing numerous writers; the Encyclopaedia Britannica referred to one of his odes as "one of the ultimate masterpieces." On February 23, 1821, John Keats died in Rome. His remains were interred in the city's Protestant Cemetery. His final wish was to be buried beneath a monument with no name or date, simply the words "Here lays One whose Name was carved in Water." Severn and Brown constructe
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