Monday, 23 November 2015

John Keats was here

A LIBRARY in the London borough of Camden is likely to have a classic book on the shelf, with the house where the genius wrote it built next door.
          This is exactly the case with the Keats Community Library. On one side you have the library, and next door lived the world-famous poet John Keats. He is even supposed to have written his Ode to a Nightingale in the front garden.
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The house in Hampstead where John  Keats lived. His works are next door in the building on the right, on the Heath Library shelves. Photo courtesy Keats House

          Imagining the cycles of time and place can make you dizzy: from Keats writing the ode in the 19th century, to you next door reading in the 21st century the ode in print, looking out the window at the garden of Keats House, Hampstead.
     

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