Two hundred years after his early death, plays, readings and new poetry will honour the legacy of the much beloved author.
46 months ago

The author of Ode to a Nightingale wrote his greatest poems with the aid of opium, believes Prof Nicholas Roe
147 months ago

John Keats was born in 1795. Orphaned at the age of 14, he was apprenticed by a manipulative guardian to an apothecary, a kind of general...
144 months ago

This absorbing, diligently researched biography draws us into the North London homes of Keats's circle, imagining even the warmth of the fireplace.
145 months ago

Nicole Gibbons reflects on a recent trip to the grave of John Keats, Romantic poet, and his house-turned-museum in Rome.
2 months ago

John Keats - Romantic Poet, Ode to Autumn, Endymion: Keats had written “Isabella,” an adaptation of the story of the Pot of Basil in...
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On Feb 23, 1821, John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome, Italy. James Clark, the resident English doctor who later became physician to...
46 months ago

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” — Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.
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This year is the bicentenary of the death of the poet John Keats. Aged 25, he died in his room beside the Spanish Steps in Rome, killed,...
40 months ago

One of the most beloved poems by the English poet John Keats (1795-1821), 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1819) is perhaps best known for its...
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