John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic poet on his deathbed with tuberculosis aged 25, sedated with laudanum and opium. Engraving after portrait by Joseph Severn. From "Old and New London: A ...
On February 21, 1821, the 25-year-old English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome. To mark the bicentenary, the British School at Rome streamed a production of Pelé Cox’s 2014 play Lift Me Up ...
If the poet John Keats—fresh, fainting, convulsed by illness for much of his short life—could speak to us from beyond the grave, what would he say? More to the point, how would he say it? Keats didn’t ...
A dying John Keats wrote to his love Fanny Brawne, “If I should die I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all ...
In his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" — which many of us perhaps first encountered in high school English class — John Keats asks readers to contemplate a different conception of time. The speaker is ...
You'll seldom read more romantic words than those the poet John Keats wrote to his neighbor and soon-to-be-fiancee Fanny Brawne. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BRIGHT STAR") BEN WHISHAW: (As John Keats) I ...
ONE would like to know whether a first reading in the letters of Keats does not generally produce something akin to a severe mental shock. It is a sensation which presently becomes agreeable, being in ...
No publication on Keats could be more acceptable just now than a complete edition of his letters. It was high time for someone to include in a definitive edition the correspondence discovered in ...
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