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A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23-year-old English poet, John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne. When she asks him to teach her about poetry, he agrees.
The poetry soon becomes a romantic remedy that works not only to sort their differences, but fuel an impassioned love affair. "I have the feeling as if I was dissolving", Keats writes.
When Keats falls ill a year later, the two young lovers face not marriage, but separation. In Keats' own poignant words, "forever panting and forever young".
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