Teignmouth:Estuary of Teignmouth seen from above Shaldon across the Ness.

In spring 1818 the poet John Keats spent several weeks in Teignmouth (on the south Coast, by the English Channel) and completed his epic poem Endymion here. His arrival coincided with a period of wet weather and he wrote to a friend of "the abominable Devonshire Weather ... the truth is, it is a splashy, rainy, misty, snowy, foggy, haily, floody, muddy, slipshod county." He spent two months there, nursing his sick brother Tom, while also writing Isabella, or the Pot of Basil. In Teignmouth he wrote "Four seasons fill the measure of the year," "Where be ye going, you Devon maid?" and later "For there's Bishop's Teign", "Over the hill" the last of his rhymed verse epistles to his friend John Hamilton Reynolds. Shakespeare uses much harsh weather and many Channel settings in his plays, such as the heath and Dover Cliff in King Lear. Courtesy of Alex1011 by GNU Free Documentation License, Yorck Project.