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London taxi driver Gerry Sherrick, with one of his sons, was outside the Hampstead home that had once belonged to the poet Keats. Sherrick was a poet too and a lover of the classics and wished to see the house where John Keats had lived~ As he approached he saw a man sitting outside the house reading a book, dressed in nineteenth-century clothes; he believed it must be a publicity gimmick. The next day Sherrick took his wife and family to Keats' house but was told that the house was closed to the public due to repairs. Sherrick then described the man outside whom he had believed to be a publicity gimmick attracting people to the house though this obviously could not now be the case. The official took them into the house, apparently in tears, and showed them a picture hanging on the wall; it was the poet John Keats sitting outside the house in exactly the pose that Sherrick had described. |
Place: Keats House, London. Date: 1976 Source: Peter Underwood |