Walter Jackson Bate

And so something happened.

One of Keats' great biographers, Walter Jackson Bate, kind of tells this maturation story where Keats really just matures very quickly and does this stuff with with poetry where, so we're talking about like Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, and then a few others as well.

But that, right, Keats was writing those in his young 20s and just spectacular, right, so that he kind of came to this moment and then created those and then, yeah, the family illness of tuberculosis took him So Keats that in part that's what Keats is kind of known for Keats is also Keats had some amazing friendships people who knew Keats adored Keats and that has been my relationship with Keats and I think that's been Brian's relationship with Keats is to to know Keats is to kind of just fall in love with him he's as a person and He's funny and witty and he's got this tragic trajectory, right? And he and his siblings were orphaned very early on.

So there's this other, besides the illness, there's this other tragic aspect to the story.