ONE of the greatest Romantic poets, John Keats, wrote his often quoted lines A thing of beauty is a joy forever while gazing at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight in 1819.
Already terminally ill, Keats spent that summer at Shanklin, where today you can still find Keats Green, Keats Inn and Keats Cottage
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