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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 ...
Romantic poet John Keats is best known for his odes, epics and sonnets. But in his short lifetime he also wrote dozens of letters to siblings and friends, which are now surfacing together online ...
Did the English Romantic poet John Keats steal bodies from graves? A closer look at some of the 19th-Century writer’s most revered works, including his famous odes composed 200 years ago in the ...
Keats’s eminently quotable poetry (“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”; “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”) has of course not been forgotten at all but is studied throughout the English- ...
Lovers of Romantic poetry might wish this film had widened its historic scope to include some of Keats’ famous contemporaries (and we already know that Gabriel Byrne makes a fabulous Lord Byron).
Poetry, he wrote in a letter, must "surprise by a fine excess" (if you know John Milton, you can see why Keats adored that epic poet for his exquisite sense of passion and pleasure).
Despite such sniping, Keats’ poetry improved with each passing month. Unfortunately by 1820, Keats began to experience shortness of breath and lung hemorrhages, a result of his tuberculosis.
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 … ...
Science News: John Keats, the iconic romantic poet, was a drug addict and consumed opium to "keep up his spirits" while writing some of his most famous poems, a con ...
John Keats' final poem before he died at 25 was "Fanny," written for muse Fanny Brawne, played by Abbie Cornish in "Bright Star." Show Caption. 1 of 2.
A little over a third of the way into Paul Kerschen’s debut historical novel, “The Warm South,” a character asks poet John Keats, “But you must know Mrs.