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 ...

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 ...

MISS AMY LOWELL’S long-awaited study of John Keats is published at last in two stout and sumptuous volumes. It is a remarkable and in some respects a unique feat of literary biography. Her aim has ...

Fear of failure often stops people from achieving their dreams. However, successful individuals understand that setbacks are ...

LETTERS or FANNY BRAWNE TO FANNY KEATS—Edited by Fred Edgcumbe—Oxford University Press ($3). When John Keats died of consumption in Italy (1821) at the age of 26, he left two girls behind him. Both ...

What a pleasure these days to come across a book that unabashedly, cheerfully celebrates the lasting power of literature. Jonathan Bate takes his cue straight from one of the subjects of his dual ...

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, penniless, passionately ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

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 ...

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions. John Keats was born in 1795. Orphaned at the age of 14, he was apprenticed by a manipulative guardian to an apothecary, a kind ...

AGAINST OBLIVION—Sheila Blrken-heod—Macmillan ($3). When the Nazis were driven from Rome three weeks ago, it is probable that few among the liberating forces realized that they had liberated, among ...

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 ...