John Keats

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Title:     John Keats
Author: Lord Byron [More Titles by Byron]

John Keats.[1]

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."

July 30, 1821.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] [For Croker's "article" on Keats's _Endymion_ (_Quarterly Review_, April, 1818, vol. xix. pp. 204-208), see _Don Juan_, Canto XI. stanza lx. line 1, _Poetical Works_, 1902, vi. 445, _note_ 4.]

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Lord Byron's poem: John Keats

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