Keats & F anny Brawne John

to be thwarted An obsessive love that was destined

It is perhaps unsurprising that one of the brightest stars of the Romanticism movement knew how to woo a lady. In 1818, John Keats met Fanny Brawne respectively. when they were aged 23 and 18 becoming Circumstances soon saw the pair their intense neighbours, ultimately sparking love affair.

This culminated in a clandestine although the engagement over a year later, opposition young couple faced the staunch her consent of Fanny’s mother. She withheld

Keats was for the marriage, believing that for a wife — not financially stable enough to exchange but Keats and Fanny continued end. passionate letters for months on wrote, In one particular letter, the poet for their Keats’ fervent letters are noted and while inherent jealousy and insecurity it is clear that none of Fanny’s letters survive, their she loved him just as deeply. However, short when relationship was tragically cut after a long Keats succumbed to tuberculosis

25. Fanny period of ill health at the age of wearing mourned his death for six years,

Keats’ ring. black clothes and never removing

“I cannot exist without you — I am forgetful of every thing — but seeing you again my life seems to stop there — I see no further. You have absorb’d me… I could die for you.”

Henry’s love for Anne forced him to break away from the Catholic Church

Fanny inspired many of Keats’ to write ‘Bright Star’ and ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

Fanny cut her hair short after Keats’ death as a sign of mourning