September 19

In literary history

• 1819John Keats took a Sunday walk near Winchester and wrote To Autumn that same afternoon, his final completed poem, at twenty-three. He had less than eighteen months left. The walk was, improbably, enough.

Writers born on September 19

• William Golding (1911)

The Daily Canon for September 19

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954).