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020			_a9781846884696
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100	1		_aGallenzi, Alessandro
245	1	0	_aWritten in water : _bKeats's final journey
260			_aLondon _bAlma books _c2022
300			_axx, 358 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ;
520			_aOn 17th September 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn, John Keats left London for Italy on board the Maria Crowther in a desperate bid to restore his health. Anguished at the thought of having to part, possibly for ever, from his fiancee and his friends, troubled by money worries and broken in body and mind, the young poet launched on his last journey on earth with both a sense of hope and a deep foreboding that his efforts would be in vain. Despite Keats's own assertion that by then he no longer felt a citizen of the world and was leading a "posthumous life", his final five months were filled with events of great biographical interest, and deserve to be examined much more carefully --
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