Fanny Brawne
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"The quickening of time, the new vehemence and historicity of private consciousness, the sudden nearness of the messianic future contributed to a marked change in the tone of sexual relations. The evidence is plain enough. It comes as early as Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems and the penetrating remark on sexual appetite in the 1800 Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. It declares itself from a comparison, even cursory, between Swift's Journal to Stella and Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne. Nothing I know of at an earlier period truly resembles the self-dramatizing, self-castigating eroticism of Hazlitt's extraordinary Liber Amoris (1823)." --In Bluebeard's Castle |
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Frances (Fanny) Brawne (9 August 1800 - 4 December 1865) is most known for her betrothal to 19th-Century English Romantic poet John Keats, a fact largely unknown until the publishing of Keats’s letters to her in 1878. Their engagement, lasting from December 1818 until his death in February 1821, covered some of the most poetically productive years of Keats’s life.
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