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In poet John Keats’ letters, a man full of life just before he died
The Keats Letters Project site also includes guest commentary on the letters from scholars, poets, professors and Keats fans. Keats, who did not formally study as a poet, but instead trained as an ...
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A Poet’s Poet: The Astonishing Career of John Keats
Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...
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‘That drop of blood is my death warrant’: Keats and the poetry of suffering
The poet John Keats made his way back from central London to the house he shared with Charles Brown in Hampstead. He was seated on the outside of the stagecoach through a bitter February evening ...
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Was the poet John Keats a graverobber?
Kelly Grovier reveals disquieting clues in odes written 200 years ago. Did the English Romantic poet John Keats steal bodies from graves? A closer look at some of the 19th-Century writer’s most ...
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KEATS’ POEM HAUNTS HALLOWEEN ON BICENTENNIAL OF HIS BIRTH
Today marks the bicentennial of the birth of the English poet John Keats (1795-1821). Today is also Halloween, though it is not observed in England, where Keats lived. Even if it were, Keats would ...
Reeta Chakrabarti shares her favourite books
The journalist and BBC news anchor is a judge for The British Book Awards 2025, the winners of which are announced on 12 May.
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How poet John Keats met his early end
Today marks the day in 1821 when John Keats, the Romantic poet who waxed on Grecian urns and nightingales, succumbed to tuberculosis. He was only 25. John was thought to have contracted the ...
The New York Times5mon
Will You Fall in Love With This Poem? I Did.
John Keats! A lot of readers of poetry — myself and Diane Seuss included — can say we love John Keats. But there will always be someone like the scholar here — possibly the voice of our own ...
New Republic11mon
John Keats's Passionate, Lusty Letters Are the Key to His Poems
give continual new meaning to the poems. What Keats puts into verse, he was forever writing about to his friends, and many a hard passage in the poetry is made understandable through some lucid ...