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# John Keats describes the taste of a nectarine in a diary entry of 22 September 1819
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- Published: 2022-09-22T12:15:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:59:04.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
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On 22 September 1819, the English Romantic poet John Keats wrote in his journal: "Talking of pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my mouth a nectarine — good God how fine! It went down soft, pulpy, slushy, oozy — all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large beatified strawberry"