John Keats Quote

If you should have a boy do not christen him John…'Tis a bad name and goes against a man. If my name had been Edmund I should have been more fortunate.

letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 13 January 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) Letters of John Keats (1958) vol. 2

If you should have a boy do not christen him John…'Tis a bad name and goes against a man. If my name had been Edmund I should have been more...

If you should have a boy do not christen him John…'Tis a bad name and goes against a man. If my name had been Edmund I should have been more...

If you should have a boy do not christen him John…'Tis a bad name and goes against a man. If my name had been Edmund I should have been more...

If you should have a boy do not christen him John…'Tis a bad name and goes against a man. If my name had been Edmund I should have been more...