John Keats and The Vale of Soul-Making
John Keats and The Vale of Soul-Making July 25, 2014, the Paris Review by Jeffrey C. Johnson How Keats coped with fever. Tuberculosis seemed to pursue Keats his whole life. In 1821, three months after he learned of Keats’s death, Percy Shelley wrote Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, in which he described the poet as a delicate, fragile young flower of a man:..