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

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

A wintry vision of the separation of two lovers gains fresh energy from the verse's roots in folk song.
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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

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

This immortal sonnet is bound to affect you. No other poem treats the fear of death, and in particular an untimely death, in so noble a fashion.
23 months ago

'It's hard – no, it's impossible – to think of another writer who suffered and achieved so much in such a short time at such an early age'
153 months ago

A new bronze sculpture of the English Romantic poet John Keats will be unveiled next week, close to his birthplace in Moorgate in the City of London.
2 months ago

Official records show that the English poet's landlady alerted Rome's authorities to the 25-year-old's illness months before he died from tuberculosis.
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