Byron’s Death• Fell ill; remedy of bleeding caused fever• Greek national hero• Heart buried under tree• Westminster Abbey refused body• Monument in Westminster

Abbey 145 years post-mortem

Byron’s Works

• “Epigraph to a Dog”• Byron’s masterpiece:

Don Juan• “She Walks in Beauty”• “Darkness”• Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

• Born in London• Four siblings • Keats’s father died • Mother remarried two months

later• Children sent to live with

grandmother• Mother died of tuberculosis

John Keats1795-1821

Keats’ Medical Career

• Apprenticed to apothecary/surgeon• Student at Guy’s Hospital • Wrote first poem • Became junior house

surgeon and dresser• Qualified as apothecary• Quit medicine

Writing, Relationships & Illness

• Published Poems • Friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley• Brother George left for America• Brother Tom died of consumption • Fell in love with Fanny Brawne • Symptoms of tuberculosis • Traveled to warmer climate to

recover

Keats’ Death

• Died in Rome at 25• Buried in Protestant Cemetery in

Rome• Tombstone reads:

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”

• Fanny Brawne mourning for years

• Poetic career lasted 3.5 years