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 to ...
"Bright Star,” a popular recent movie about the relationship between English Romantic poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, has caused a stir and reawakened the general interest in the poetry of this ...
Selected and Edited by Jeffrey N. Cox, professor of English and of comparative literature and humanities, and associate vice chancellor for faculty affairs W. W. Norton This Norton Critical Edition ...
Roe accurately points out that Keats’ enthusiasm for mythology that the other Romantic poets had given up on as old-fashioned enabled “writers as diverse as Tennyson, Pound, Eliot, Walcott and Heaney” ...
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." This haunting line from Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats is just one of many memorable quotations from the beloved lyric poet — from "A thing of beauty is a joy ...
If the bare act of sex were enough for us, we wouldn’t complicate it with our imaginings, with poetry, with movies. Like John Keats’ poetry, “Bright Star” — the new biopic about the Romantic poet — is ...
The poet John Keats died, horribly, two hundred years ago this month, his lungs so ravaged by tuberculosis that the doctors in Rome who carried out the autopsy couldn't understand how he had breathed ...
There's beauty and darkness in his work, says Sandra Rosenberg John Keats One of the great pleasures of my teaching life this year has been teaching John Keats to my Leaving Cert students. I don't ...
John Keats’ life, love and death make him a romantic cliche and a fine subject for a period romance in Bright Star. Consider — his now-revered poetry was scorned in his lifetime. He was genteel yet ...
The passionate romance of poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne - one of English literature's greatest (and perhaps least-known) love stories - plays out in exquisite detail in the new film by ...