Determined that narrative poetry was all, Keats wasn’t put off but wrote, in quick succession, the three most enduring of his long poems, Isabella or the Pot of Basil, The Eve of St Agnes, and ...

However, I believe that Keats' poetry, so filled with meditations on life, beauty, transience and fears of death, struck a chord with the students of 2021.

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 ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The other night I shared dinner with a couple who hated Jane Campion's new movie, about the truncated, ill-fated love relationship between the British poet savant, John Keats, and his paramour ...