June–August – English poetJohn Keats with his friendCharles Armitage Brown makes a walking tour ofScotland, Ireland and the EnglishLake District. On 11 July, while in Scotland, he visitsBurns Cottage, the birthplace ofRobert Burns (1759–96). Before Keats arrives, he writes to a friend "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns — we need not think of his misery — that is all gone — bad luck to it — I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure."[10] but his encounter with the cottage's alcoholic custodian returns him to thoughts of misery.[11] On 2 August he climbs to the summit ofBen Nevis, on which he writes a sonnet.[12]
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