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John Keats

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Romantic poet whose December 1818 letter to his brothers discussed a dinner party where he preferred the company of actor Edmund Kean over fashionable men who valued wit over humor.

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"Bright star, would I were as steadfast as thou art - Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores... -- John Keats"
"I dined with Haydon the Sunday after you left, & had a very pleasant day, I dined too (for I have been out too much lately) with Horace Smith & met his two brothers with Hill & Kingston & one Du Bois, they only served to convince me, how superior humour is to wit in respect to enjoyment—These men sa"
from Keats's Dec 1818 letter to his brothers · u/NadruYakhni · ↑28 · 2021-11-22
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