Essays, Spring 2007

A Thousand Days

by Heidi Glyn Barker

In the first line of an early poem by Keats, he refers to his “mortal body of a thousand days.” The strange premonition that he would die within three years haunted him; when he first began to cough up blood, a few months after he wrote this sonnet, his reaction was one of resignation, rather [...]

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