Chapter twenty-five of John Keats biography is all about the death of John Keats.  It was on Friday, February the twenty-third.  The authorities not informed until the next day, where casts were taken of his face, hand and foot.  It wasn’t until the following day, Sunday, that the autopsy was done, which revealed that his lungs had been completely destroyed, though it was unclear if it had spread to his other organs. In tribute to him, Keats’ coffin was filled with unopened letter and other gifts, before his body was buried at the pyramid of Cestius on that Monday, and still the papers had been uninformed of this.

The  morning chronicle was the first to be informed of and post the death of John keats the following month on the twenty second.  Part of the wait being that Keats’ family had yet to have been informed of the passing of Keats, which ended in his mother and sister entering a period of nine days of morning.

The last chapter is a very romantic summation of Keats’ life, one that connects the dots to the person he became by the end.  This last bit is Roe’s eulogy to the poet that was john Keats.  Ending on the message of “Death had delayed coming to him until late on Friday, 23 February, for this was the roman festival of Terminalia, sacred to limits and extremities like this last darkling bride on which John Keats paused, steadied himself as many times before, and stepped beyond tomorrow.”  Words that beautifully capture the ending of the earthly 3adventure into the next adventure beyond tomorrow.