Abstract This essay aims to address the cultural mythology surrounding tuberculosis, or ‘consumption’, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which informed John Keats’s work and its subsequent reception. We can assess this from both a scientific and cultural standpoint, in part because Keats himself was trained as a physician, and therefore well aware of the realities of his disease. Nevertheless, aspects of the myth of the consumptive still appear in Keats’s poetry alongside the more unromantic experience of tuberculosis, as close reading of his verse (and comparison with his letters) attests.

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“他死时看起来多么有趣”：约翰济慈和消费

摘要 本文旨在探讨 18 和 19 世纪围绕结核病或“消费”的文化神话，这些神话影响了济慈的作品及其随后的接受。我们可以从科学和文化的角度来评估这一点，部分原因是济慈本人接受过医生培训，因此非常了解他的疾病的现实情况。尽管如此，消费神话的某些方面仍然出现在济慈的诗歌中，以及更不浪漫的肺结核经历，仔细阅读他的诗句（并与他的信件进行比较）证明了这一点。