According to Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats died from negative reviews of his poem.>The savage criticism on his Endymion, which appeared in the Quarterly Review, produced the most violent effect on his susceptible mind; the agitation thus originated ended in the rupture of a blood-vessel in the lungs; a rapid consumption ensued, and the succeeding acknowledgments from more candid critics, of the true greatness of his powers, were ineffectual to heal the wound thus wantonly inflicted.
It was Percy Blythe Shelley when I was growing up. The Mandela effect is real
>>24119588I can't believe the critics gave him tuberculosis
>>24119588I can't imagine Shelley being dramatic about something like this.
>>24119588It's 4000 lines of basic bitch heroic meter. He later admitted he shouldn't have published it
>>24119588is this the guy from Hyperion?
>>24119588Is his middle name seriously "Bishi?"
>>24119667short for bishoujo
>>24119590I come from the dimension where it was Percy Bryce
this is why every author of note burns their juvenalia, never letting anyone know the cringe they had written before they had a more mature judgement
>>24119588Yes but it's probably not true, and that's not a real portrait of Keats.>>24119590Probably just a false memory because you associated him with "Blithe spirit" (from 'The Skylark').
>>24120237Endymion isn't juvenalia. Every writer has to start somewhere publishing their works, and it's a perfectly good enough poem to publish.
>>24119650Okay then, so what metre should he have used instead?
>>24120292this is simply not true
>>24120297What, that it's not good enough to publish? That a writer has to start somewhere publishing their works? Or that it's not juvenalia?
Yet JK Rowling didn’t lose a moments sleep over “stretched his legs”Troons and tubercular fags are too fragile to survive.
>>24120317She wrote for money, not out of love for the game. Apollo turns his back.
>>24120317Probably because it's not true
