A Melodious Plot (AW58)

This pretty villa in the airy London suburb of Hampstead was the home of Romantic poet John Keats. Now the Keats House Museum, it was originally a pair of semi-detached houses.
Here Keats wrote some of his greatest poetry, including his Ode to a Nightingale from which the title of this collage comes, and here he fell in love with and became engaged to Fanny Brawne, who lived with her mother in the other half of the house.
Worsening health eventually forced Keats to travel to Italy. Fanny’s diary entry for September 13 1820 is heartbreaking in its brevity: “Mr Keats left Hampstead”.
Just a few months later, aged 25, he died in Rome.