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From the time he began publishing poems in his early 20s, through his tragic death at 25, and then beyond into his posthumous afterlife as a Romantic poet sui generis, John Keats' literary reputation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

The English poet originally trained in medicine, where he would have encountered bodysnatchers. Kelly Grovier reveals disquieting clues in odes written 200 years ago. Did the English Romantic poet ...

Take just a moment to estimate how many songs you know by heart. Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Now, how many poems do you have memorized? For most modern readers, even poetry fans, that number's pretty ...

Poetry gets a bad rap almost everywhere: In school, where many of us read it because we have to; in life, where most of us don’t read it at all; and in the movies, where it’s often quoted by the most ...