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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
The Hampstead house where Keats wrote 'Ode to a Nightingale' and fell in love with the girl next door.
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Keats lodged here with Charles Brown from 1818 to 1820, the two years in which almost all the poetry that matters was written: 'Ode to a Nightingale', supposedly under a plum tree in the garden, 'To Autumn', 'The Eve of St Agnes' and the odes on melancholy and the Grecian urn. Fanny Brawne and her mother took the other half of the house; the ring he gave her and the letters are here, along with the room where the poet, a trained apothecary, coughed up the drop of arterial blood he called his death warrant. He left for Rome from this house in September 1820 and died there five months later.
| Monday | Closed |
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| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 11:00 – 17:00 |
| Thursday | 11:00 – 17:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 – 17:00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | 11:00 – 17:00 |
Hours from the page that lists them, checked 5 September 2026.
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