Mapping Keats’s Progress
A Critical Chronology

A Keats Gallery: Versions, Variations, & Violations

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  Keats, by Joanna Kane, from The Somnambulists (2008), after Benjamin Robert Haydon’s 1816 life-mask

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  Keats, by Charles Brown, 1819 (National Portrait Gallery 1963)

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, 1817 (Victoria and Albert Museum F.90)

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  Keats, by Frederick Hollyer, after Joseph Severn, c.1906

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, January 1821

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, “Keats Listening to a Nightingale,” 1845 (Keats House)

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, miniature oil painting, 1819 (National Portrait Gallery 1605)

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  Keats, miniature, by Severn, framed (hand-painted reproduction)

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  Keats, by Valentin de Llanos after Joseph Severn (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1887.1.5)

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  Keats, reproduction of William Hilton's portrait (c.1822, now lost), based on Joseph Severn, 1816 (British Museum)

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  Keats, by William Hilton, after Joseph Severn c.1822 (National Portrait Gallery 194)

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, bust portrait drawing, 1860 (Houghton Library, Harvard)

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  Keats, after Joseph Severn (1819), on a tank top, contemporary

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  Keats, by Benjamin Robert Haydon (in a letter to Elizabeth Barrett), c.1842

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  Keats, photograph by Arthur Dawson, by Benjamin Robert Haydon (sketch for “Christ's Entry…”), 1817 (National Portrait Gallery, NPG D36763)

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  Keats, by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1831, after a dream about Keats

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  Keats, by Benjamin Robert Haydon, November 1816 (National Portrait Gallery NPG 3251)

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  Keats, as pop art on a dinner plate, contemporary (by Poetryisntdead)

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  Keats, as pop art on an apron, contemporary (by Poetryisntdead)

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  Keats bust, produced by Elkington & Co, after 1816 Benjamin Robert Haydon life-mask, 1885 (National Portrait Gallery NPG 686b)

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  Keats buttons for sale on eBay, contemporary

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  Keats, by C. H. Jeens, after Joseph Severn (1859), 1876

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  Keats, CGI image by The Institute for Digital Archeology (Oxford), 2021

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  Keats, CGI image by The Institute for Digital Archeology (Oxford), 2021

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  Keats, by W. Hilton, reproduced in the London Illustrated News, 26 Oct. 1872

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  Keats, by Charles Brown, silhouette, early 1819 (Keats House)

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  Keats, by Charles Wentworth Wass, after William Hilton, 1841 (National Portrait Gallery D5220)

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  Keats, by Earnest William Haslehurst, “Keats’ Home in Hampstead,” 1909

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  Keats reading, notebook sketch by brother Tom, c.1817 (Keats-Shelley House [ART-017], Rome)

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  Keats, by Frederick Hollyer, possibly after Ann Mary Newton

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  Keats, by G. B. Ellis, engraving, after Joseph Severn (1817), 1831

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  Keats, by Gardner Callahan Teall, c.1900

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  Keats, by John Randall York (“Ode to Autumn”), 2005

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  Keats, Graphic Image, Keats-Shelley House (Rome)

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  Keats, porcelain figurine bookend (Keats-Shelley House [ART-040], Rome)

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  Keats, by John Sokol, “Penmanship Portraits” series

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  Keats, by F. J. Sullivan, in The Poems of John Keats

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn (so-called Lost Portrait), half-tone plate, engraved by H. Davidson, date unknown

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, 1821-1823 (National Portrait Gallery 58)

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, 1834. Severn’s second version of the former painting. Sold at Christie’s 2020

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, 1859

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, bust drawing, 1860

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, sketch for Keats’s funeral monument, 1826

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  Keats, by M. Jameson, after Joseph Severn (1817), c.1890s

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  Keats, by Mrs. Leigh Hunt, silhouette from newspaper clipping

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  Keats, by Ross Wilson, after Benjamin Robert Haydon, contemporary

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  Keats, by Sidney B. Waugh, “Gigantic head of Keats,” c.1934

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  Keats, by Steven Hammond, date unknown

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  Keats, by Stuart Williamson, statue at Guy's Hospital (closeup), 2007

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  Keats, by Stuart Williamson, statue at Guy’s Hospital, 2007

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  Keats, by Warrington Wood, after Giuseppe Girometti medallion (1822, now in Keats House), 1876, Protestant Cemetary, Rome

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  Keats, cardboard cutout, date unknown

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  Keats card, date unknown

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  Keats, life-mask, by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1816 (National Portrait Gallery NPG 686)

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  Keats death-mask at Keats-Shelley House, with acknowledgement, February 1821

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  Keats, drawing of death mask by John Roberts, 1946-2002

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  Keats, drawing by George Scharf, after William Hilton (c.1822), 1865 (Heinz Archive, NPG)

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  Keats, engraving, after William Hilton's (lost) c.1819 chalk drawing of Keats, by Oscar Grosch, 1896

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  Keats, first day cover, 150th anniversary of his death, 1971

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  Keats, first day issue of Keats stamp from Keats House, 28 July 1971

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  Keats, first day issue stamp, 28 July 1971

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  Keats, 3p stamp and card, 1971, Shanklin

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  Keats, Literary Anniversaries, 1971, First Day Cover, with Gray and Scott

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  Keats, from Harper's Magazine, after Joseph Severn, 1877

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  Keats, from Thin Paper Edition of Keats’ Poems

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  Keats, mugshot (literally)

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  Keats, on a bumper sticker, by Literary Locations

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  Keats, on a Russian book cover, 1989

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  Keats, on a t-shirt, after Joseph Severn (1819), contemporary

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  Keats, on a tattoo

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  Keats, on a tattoo, no.2

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  Keats, on his deathbed, by Joseph Severn, January 1821 (Keats-Shelley House, Rome)

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  Keats, after Joseph Severn (1819), wood-graving, c.1840-1865 (British Museum 1865,0114.415)

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  Keats, on his deathbed, sketch by Joseph Severn, 1821

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  Keats, painting by T. Sampson, after Benjamin Robert Haydon life-mask (1816), 1828 (National Portrait Gallery 686a)

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  Keats, possibly (miniature from the circle of painters assoc, with Charles Hayter), c.1810-1815

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  Keats, poster, “BadlyDrawnAuthor” series, ©Sean Ryan, 2014

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  Keats, poster, from QuoteArtisan, after Joseph Severn (1819), contemporary

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  Keats, reproduction of William Hilton's portrait (c.1822, now lost), based on Joseph Severn, 1816 (British Museum)

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  Keats, in Arthur Symon’s 1906 edition of Keats’s poems

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  Keats, drawing by Malvina Hoffman, 1910

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  Keats, cover of M. A. Goldberg’s 1969 The Poetics of Romanticism: Toward a Reading of John Keats

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  Keats, Ty-phoo tea card, “Homes of Famous Men, Lawn Bank” [Wentworth Place]

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  Keats, vintage inner cigar label, after Joseph Severn (1819), Allen R. Cressman's Sons, date unknown

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  Keats, woodcut, from Newbolt edition, c.1928

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  Keats, after William Hilton (possibly 1820, c.1841 (British Museum)

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  Keats, after Joseph Severn (1819), International Portrait Gallery, 1968

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  Keats, by Anne Whitney, bust, 1873; given to Keats House, 1933

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  Keats, by Anne Whitney, bust; presented at first English public Keats memorial, St John-at-Hampstead Parish Church, 1894

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  Keats, by Joseph Severn, 1819 (National Portrait Gallery)

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  Keats, after Severn, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1877

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  Keats, by Mike Newton, contemporary

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  Keats, by William James Neatby, in Days With the Poets (a series), by May Byron, 1899

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  Keats, c.1825[?], Silhouette using Verre Églomisé

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  Keats, Magic Lantern portrait/slide, c.1890, after Severn

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  Keats, on the cover of Trilling's selection of Keats’s letters, 1950

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  Keats, silhouette in a journal, Current Opinion, April 1921 (original by Charles Brown, 1819)

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  Keats, after Severn, from an ad for “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Outlook Magazine, 1909

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  Keats, after Severn, in Letters and Poems by John Keats, 1883

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  Keats and the Nightingale, Frances Broomfield, 2002

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  Keats, as a greeting card (contemporary, Redbubble)

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  Keats, as a greeting card (contemporary, Redbubble Ltd)

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  Keats, as a Jack of Hearts playing card, date unknown

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  Keats, Bronze Bust, by Agness Yarnell, 1974

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  Keats, cabinet card, from Bruckmann's Collection, date unknown

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  Keats, coming up with -A thing of beauty…-, -c.1930

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  Keats, contemporary (from British Isles Art Works)

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  Keats, Minute Biography, 1931, by Samuel Nisenson and Alfred Parker

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  Keats, Glass Magic Lantern Slide, c.1890

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  Keats, Z-Light UV Game Card

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  Keats, Z-Light UV Game Card

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  Keats, portrayed by Ben Whishaw, from the movie Bright Star, 2009

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  Keats, Severn's Recollection, in Sharp's Life & Letters of Severn, 1892

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  Keats, woodcut by John Buckland-Wright, 1930, for the collected sonnets of Keats

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  Keats, woodcut by John Buckland-Wright, 1931, for Keats’s letters to Fanny Brawne

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  Keats, woodcut by John Buckland-Wright, Endymion, 1947

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  Keats, by David Hughes, from The New Yorker, 7 July 2008

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  Keats, The 'Lost Portrait' of Keats by Severn, - The Century Illustrated (Monthly) Magazine, 1905-6, p.548

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  Keats, The Life-Mask of Keats, after Haydon, from The Century Illustrated (Monthly) Magazine, 1905-6, v.71 p.539

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  Keats, by Douglas M. Steiner, Variations, The Life Mask of John Keats, 2012, after Haydon's life mask

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  Keats, by Anupa Sahdev, 2012. Pencil on paper, London.

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  Keats, Severn's Charcoal Drawing of Keats, after Severn, from The Century Illustrated Magazine, 1905-6, v.71, p.536

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  Keats, book cover of Trillings's selection of Keats's letters, 1956

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  Keats, Bust of Keats by Mac Dowell, from the Westminster Budget, 3 Aug 1894, p.25

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  Keats, frontispiece, from the 1st America ed. of JK's poems, Boston- Little Brown and Co, 1854

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  Keats, postcard, Photchrom Co Ltd, London, c.early-20th C

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  Keats, 1821 plaster portrait by Giuseppe Girometti (Keats-Shelley House, Rome)

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  Keats, Jasper Portrait Medallion, Wedgwood Collection

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  Keats, medallion, by Giuseppe Girometti c.1832

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  Keats, scupture by Malvina Hoffman, 1926

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  Keats, with portrait of his sister, 1909

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  Keats, by Sophie Herxheimer, contemporary

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  Keats, Colourburst Art Print, by TPCK

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  Keats, by David Levine, The New York Review of Books, 31 October 1963

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  Keats, by David Levine, The New York Review of Books, 7 November 1968

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  Keats, by David Levine, 1981

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  Keats, by Lebo Poen (ellpoen), contemporary

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  Keats, Dress the Romantics, Gallery Beggar Press, Norwich

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  Keats, by Macy Allen, 2016

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  Keats, book cover by Vechislav Begidjanov, on Beth Lau’s book, Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets

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  Keats, cartoon, by Raine Szramski, 31 October 2012

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  Keats, sketch, Edward Drantler

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  Keats, by John Adcock (1912), after Hilton

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  Keats, by Caroline Cattlett Gates, contemporary

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  Keats, by Matt Sesow, contemporary, after Severn 1819

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  Keats, bust by William Wetmore Story, c.1876 (Keats-Shelley House, Rome)

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  Keats, by Nevena Niagolova, contemporary illustration

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  Keats, oil painting by N. C. Wyeth, 1926 (Brandywine River Museum of Art SUPP2000.964)

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  Keats, by Nicola Rotiroti, 2013 (oil on paper)

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  Keats, by Raine Szramski (gouache), inspired by To Autumn, c.2013

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  Keats, sculpture by Vincent Gray, Chichester, Eastgate Square, 2017

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  Keats, bookmark, by Amanda White, with permission of the artist

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  Keats, wood engraving on paper by Barry Moser

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  Keats, illustration for The Girl with the John Keats Tattoo, written by Meghan Harlow, illustration by Eric Clausen

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  Keats, as a tattoo on the arm of Meghan Harlow, by Justin Weatherholtz (with permission of the arm's owner

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  Keats, bronze relief by George Frampton, 1898, Fore Street, Edmonton (London)

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  Keats, from the Mary Evans picture library (Mary Evans Picture Library 10070417)

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  Keats and Fanny Brawne, My English Love, John Keats, painter unknown, for sale via etsy.com

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  Keats, portrayed in the 1973 film (John Keats: His Life and Death) produced by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation

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  Keats, by Drishan Ganguly Misra, 2016

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  Keats, glutting his soul on a rose (Ode on Melancholy), by meluseena

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  Keats, above Mary Karr’s desk, coming out of the wall (via Facebook)

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  Keats, Guernsey celebration stamp, 200th anniversary of the odes, 2019, designed by Keith Robinson

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  Keats, complete set of Guernsey celebration stamps, 200th anniversary of the odes, 2019

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  Keats, music cover, John Keats’s Sublime Single, To Autumn/On the Shore, 2009

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  Keats, on the cover of John Middleton Murry’s 1958 book

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  Keats, bookplate for the Harvard Keats Collection, by Sidney B. Waugh

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  Keats, cover from the book, John Keats, from The Quince Tree Press, 2012

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  Keats, cover from Sidney Colvin’s 1917 book, with a c.1940 binding

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  Keats, with Coleridge and Shelley, in the 1829 Galignani Paris edition

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  Keats, drowning on a postcard, from Tom Goddard to E.R. (Ted) Saunders

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  Keats, book cover of the Cambridge Edition of Keats’s Complete Poetical Works

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  Keats, sitting in his window seat, beginning Endymion

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  Keats, book cover by Richard Powers, 1959

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  Keats, book cover of Richard Fogle’s Selected Poetry and Letters of Keats, 1969

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  Keats, book cover by Charles Mozley, 1970

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  Keats, book cover of Douglas Bush’s John Keats, 1966

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  Keats, To Autumn, by jezebel-polizia via deviantart

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  Keats, from Twinkl Create

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  Keats, doodle, by Muirin007

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  Keats, portait, contempory, by vorakkh

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  Keats, cartoon seeing the doctor

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  Keats, by the Dead Writers Circle

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  Keats, Keats 200 online exhibition, 2021, Keats House, City of London

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  Keats, Keats 200 online exhibition, 2021, Keats House, City of London

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  Keats, by David Gothard, Wall Street Journal, 10 February 2023

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  Keats, book cover of Trillings's selection of Keats's letters, 1956

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  Keats in Rome Poster, Keats-Shelley House, Rome

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  Keats, by Gurpreet Kaurarts