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Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Note 52 — XXXIII to XXXVII. KENTISH TOWN—PREPARING FOR ITALY.

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He was seemingly in a different phase of belief from that in which the death of his brother Tom found him. At that time he recorded that he and Tom both firmly believed in immortality. See Life, Letters, &c., Vol. I, p. 246. A further indication of his having shifted from the moorings of orthodoxy may be found in the expression in Letter XXXV, “I appeal to you by the blood of that Christ you believe in:”—not “we believe in.”

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