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Where the books were written, set, sold, printed and buried: from the Globe to the graves, the bookshops to the presses.
This season's book talks, festivals and exhibitions are in What's On: Books & writers
Keats as a medical student, sitting in an alcove from old London Bridge in the courtyard of the hospital that trained him.
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Also in Monuments & Ruins.
Keats walked into Guy's in October 1815 as a surgeon's dresser, sat his apothecary's exams the next summer and passed, and then gave it up for poetry; the Endymion years, Fanny Brawne and the odes were all ahead, and so was the consumption that killed him at twenty-five. Stuart Williamson's bronze of 2007 has him in the year of the decision, coat open, book on his knee, in one of the stone alcoves that stood on the eighteenth-century London Bridge and came to the hospital courtyard in 1861. Andrew Motion, his biographer, unveiled it, and the medical students still eat their lunch beside him.
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