#keats house doesn't do that lmao

[lesamis]

this isn't a question i've been specifically asked, but people have sent in questions about keats's appearance before, so i thought i'd share these little tidbits i recently learned at the keats-shelley house :') someone did ask about people going a little bit insane about keats's hair, so as an add-on to that, here's a bit of what bailey described as feeling like "the rich plumage of a bird":

someone also once asked about his proportions (spoilers: he was Small), and these are two little sketches i'd never seen before made by severn of keats reading. they were dated at around 1818, so he was healthy then, and appears to have been a "no two feet on the floor at any given moment" kind of person.

#sorry i'm so endeared by these sketches. joseph severn i owe u my stupid life #i also had no idea that lock of hair was just..........on display seemingly all the time? #keats house doesn't do that lmao #which is good for me bc if they did i'd have been in an emotionally available state of mind when i saw it #this way i didn't feel a single emotion bc i was emotionally dead for the entirety of the rome trip hgfsddfgh #we're an exact haircolour match btw. not that it matters #romanticism chats #keats