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JOHN KEATS (1) by GEORGE GORDON BYRON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHO KILL'D JOHN KEATS?
Last Line: OR SOUTHEY OR BARROW!'
Subject(s): HATE; KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821); POETRY & POETS;

'WHO kill'd John Keats?'
'I,' says the Quarterly,
So savage and Tartarly;
''T was 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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