Arts & Sciences
John Keats
From Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit
Arts & Sciences
Who killed John Keats?
"I," says the Quarterly,
So savage and Tartarly;
"'T was one of my feats."
Who shot the arrow?
"The poet-priest Milman
(So ready to kill man)
"Or Southey, or Barrow."
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Codex Note
July 30, 1821. First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 506.
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Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “John Keats.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/257/.
Chicago
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. “John Keats.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/byron/257/.
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