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On the evening of 26 December 1817 John Keats went to the Christmas pantomime at Drury Lane with two friends, and walked home afterwards to Hampstead with one of them, Charles Wentworth Dilke. Dilke was a scholarly man, an editor of old plays, and the two of them had what Keats, writing to his brothers the next day, called a disquisition.



