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Bright Star (Apparition), Jane Campion’s new film about the brief love affair between John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne, is a thing of beauty: the rare film about the life of an artist ...
Who killed John Keats? I, says the Quarterly So savage and Tartarly; ‘Twas one of my feats. — Lord Byron Two months before he died, John Keats claimed he had been poisoned. Shaken and confused ...
We tend to think of John Keats as, in Lucasta Miller’s provocative phrase, “the most romantic of the Romantic poets.” He’s the pure soul—so the legend goes—who died at only 25 ...
A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions. John Keats was born in 1795. Orphaned at the age of 14, he was apprenticed by a manipulative guardian to an apothecary, a ...
John Keats knew tuberculosis well and his thoughts of death pervade his poetry. Two hundred years on, Kevin Childs revisits those painful stanzas. Wednesday 03 March 2021 16:41 GMT.
In the village of Hampstead, England, John Keats wrote most of his great odes and mature poems in a two-family house he shared with his friend Charles Brown. He also lived an acutely pent-up ...
Even John Keats'. On the anniversary of his passing, the poet's words are an opportunity to remember that every life is more than the tragedy of its end. Portrait of poet John Keats.
If, in John Keats’s famous declaration, “a thing of beauty is a joy forever,” his poems and letters will long endure as sources of jubilation. His odes—“to a Nightingale,” “on a ...
Two hundred years ago this week, English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis, in Rome, at the age of 25. In his short life Keats had composed an astonishing body of work, one that would guarantee ...
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 ...