Keats and Teignmouth - Literary Tourism in Devon. If you are planning to visit the seaside town of Teignmouth in Devon be sure to take some poems by John Keats with you. Keats stayed here in 1818, just over 200 years ago, and leaves us some journaling in his correspondence to set the scene: 1818 letter from John Keats: March 13th 1818, to Benjamin Bailey – you may say what you will of Devonshire: the truth is, it is a splashy, rainy, misty snowy, foggy, haily floody, muddy, slipshod county the hills are very beautiful, when you get a sight of ‘em the Primroses are out, but then you are in the Cliffs are of a fine deep Colour, but then the Clouds are continually vieing with them Two houses down towards Rat Island claim to be the place that Keats rented when he lived here. Of course, he could easily have rented them both for himself and family. Number 36 and the house called 'Old Place', on Northumberland Place, Rat Island, Teignmouth, South Devon UK. It...
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