feb 23, 1821 - JOHN KEATS DIES

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Rome, Italy

​1821 February Severn nurses Keats throughout his illness and is with him at his death on 23 February. He is twenty-five years old. Keats is buried three days later in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. A tombstone, erected later by Severn and Brown, incorporates Keats’s own epitaph ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’.

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