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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 that 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 ...

Anyone who says writing a poem is easy isn't writing poetry. Sometimes, though, one just pops out of a poet's head after a long struggle with another, longer one. That seems to have been the case with ...

If you were a poet, do you think a series of poor reviews would literally kill you? If you were a medical student, do you think you would throw over the prospect of a respected and secure career for ...