John Keats

Portrait of Lord Byron
Lord Byron 1788–1824

Who killed John Keats? 'I,' says the Quarterly, So savage and Tartarly; ''Twas one of my feats.'

Who shot the arrow? 'The poet-priest Milman (So ready to kill man), Or Southey or Barrow.'

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