The Anchovy in Literature
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From John Keats, His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, and After-Fame
by Sidney Colvin (1917)
It heartens Us to hear that we sustained the great English poet in his final days. — The Schoolmarm
Chapter XVI.
As John Keats lay dying in Rome, "His sufferings were very great, partly from the nature of the disease itself, partly from the effect of the disastrous lowering and starving treatment at that day employed to combat it. His diet was at one time reduced to one anchovy and a small piece of toast a day, so that he endured cruel pangs of actual hunger."
