{"id":438,"date":"2009-12-14T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=438"},"modified":"2009-12-17T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T20:53:16","slug":"a-poet-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2009\/12\/14\/a-poet-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A poet in love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2009\/12\/MS-Keats-1.71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-457\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2009\/12\/MS-Keats-1.71.jpg\" alt=\"MS-Keats-1.71\" width=\"247\" height=\"412\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>In 1818, poet John Keats (1795-1821) met Fanny Brawne (1800-1865), his neighbor in Hampstead.\u00a0 Keats was immediately intrigued by Brawne&#8217;s intelligence and beauty.\u00a0 The two fell in love, despite the obstacles of Keats&#8217;s health and poor finances.\u00a0 They exchanged frequent letters, and Brawne inspired some of Keats&#8217;s most well-known poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Houghton is currently exhibiting items relating to Keats&#8217;s and Brawne&#8217;s relationship, including a selection Keats&#8217;s letters to Brawne, a lock of Brawne&#8217;s hair, Oscar Wilde&#8217;s response to the 1885 auction of Keats&#8217;s love letters, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will be in Houghton&#8217;s Amy Lowell Room until mid-January.\u00a0 The Lowell Room is open to the public Tuesday-Thursday, 9 AM &#8211; 7 PM, and Monday, Friday, and Saturday 9 AM &#8211; 5 PM.\u00a0 For more information on Houghton&#8217;s hours, see <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/hours\/unit.cfm?unit_id=8\" target=\"_blank\">Houghton&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/DOCUME%7E1\/hgcole\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1818, poet John Keats (1795-1821) met Fanny Brawne (1800-1865), his neighbor in Hampstead.\u00a0 Keats was immediately intrigued by Brawne&#8217;s intelligence and beauty.\u00a0 The two fell in love, despite the obstacles of Keats&#8217;s health and poor finances.\u00a0 They exchanged frequent letters, and Brawne inspired some of Keats&#8217;s most well-known poetry. Houghton is currently exhibiting items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2848,8802,2828,2797,6219,2452,873],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-19th-century","tag-correspondence","tag-english-lit","tag-exhibitions","tag-great-britain","tag-manuscripts","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-74","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}