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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 ...
Writers and Company1:03:48John Keats, the ultimate Romantic poet: an intriguing new take on his life from Lucasta Miller "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." This haunting line from Ode on a Grecian ...
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 ...
Though her new film Bright Star chronicles the love story of British Romantic poet John Keats and 18-year-old Fanny Brawne, Academy Award-winning director Jane Campion says she wasn't always a fan ...
Keats was one of the pillars of British Romanticism, and a romantic figure in other ways as well. He was only 25 when he died, in 1821, of tuberculosis and also — according to legend — of the ...
Before turning to poetry, Keats studied medicine. His own illness would thwart his ambitions in literature and in love. In 1820, he decamped to Rome after doctors recommended a change in climate ...
At St Anthony’s School for Boys' in Hampstead, as part of our ongoing series of assembly talks on famous Hampstead residents, English teacher Claudia gave a talk on the romantic poet John Keats ...
A visitor reads at the garden of Keats House in London, Britain, April 16, 2025. English romantic poet John Keats lived at Keats House from 1818 to 1820, and the house is now a museum dedicated to ...