Autumn Days, Keats House, Hampstead (AW19)

This pretty Regency house, Wentworth Place, now known as Keats House, was the home of Romantic poet John Keats between 1818 and 1820 when he shared part of it with his friend Charles Brown.
For most of the time it was a place of happiness for Keats, it was where he wrote much of the poetry for which he is famous and where he first met and fell deeply in love with Fanny Brawne who lived with her mother and siblings in the other half of the villa.
In one of his letters to her he asked: “Do you hear the thrush singing over the field?”