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John Keats Eats

I can scarcely bid you good bye even in a letter. I always made an awkward bow.

Those words, often quoted, appear at the end of John Keats’ last surviving letter, written in November of 1820 to his dear friend, Charles Brown, just two months before 25-year-old Keats succumbed to tuberculosis. Much will be written today—the 200th anniversary of his death—…