Do You Want To be Immortal, or Do You Want To Live A Long Time?

We’ve been quoting Keats for nearly two centuries.
The late Carolyn Jones, on The Addams Family, intoned
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” No question:
Keats is with us always. But now so is Hunt, his friend,
Whom he creamed in sonnet competition, and who was
Long considered a footnote. No more. Keats died at 26,
Coughing his lungs out in Rome. That’s literary legend.
Hunt made it to 75. Who knows where or how he died?
But they’re both on Wikipedia. So who’d you rather be?