Walking North with Keats Kyros Walker Carol
Walking North with Keats Kyros Walker Carol In the summer of 1818, John Keats and his friend, Charles Brown, headed north to Scotland on a walking tour to visit Burns country and the rugged, Romantic…
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Walking North with Keats Kyros Walker Carol
In the summer of 1818, John Keats and his friend, Charles Brown, headed north to Scotland on a walking tour to visit Burns country and the rugged, Romantic landscape beyond. Their goal was to reach John o'Groats and return by way of Perthshire. They planned a route that would first take them through Northern England, the Lake District and Wordsworth country.
The journey was to be a Prologue to his reimagined life.Keats's letters offer an affecting narrative thread of his relations to his siblings--George, who was emigrating to America with his new bride; Fanny, the youngest, who was in the care of an unfriendly guardian; and most of all Tom, alone in Hampstead, dying of consumption. This journey came at a time when Keats rejected a career of medicine, having practiced as a surgeon at Guys Hospital, and resolved to devote himself solely to writing poetry. Keats never