I've just started re-reading Andrew Motion's biography and he says that Keats' full adult height was 5ft 1in. Could he really have been so short - how can anyone be sure?
It must have been really terrible for him. After all, people were shorter in general, but even in those days he would have really stood out in a crowd (or not as the case may be!!)
I wonder what anyone else thinks about this. How did it affect Keats' temprament and his work? I know that as a child he was very pugnacious, often ending up at fights when he was at Clarke's School in Enfield (usually defending one of his brothers).
Was his small stature something that made him strive even more to achieve great things in the "realm of rhyme" as a way of being noticed in the world despite his physical disavantages?
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I can write about anything given the chance.
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