Who Killed John Keats?

By AMY LEAL

Who killed John Keats?
I, says the Quarterly
So savage and Tartarly;
'Twas one of my feats.

 — Lord Byron

Two months before he died, John Keats claimed he had been poisoned. Shaken and confused, his friend Joseph Severn reported the conversation in a letter that was later partially obliterated: "his dreadful...