Nicole Gibbons reflects on a recent trip to the grave of John Keats, Romantic poet, and his house-turned-museum in Rome.
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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 Giovanni Boccaccio's...
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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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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.
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In my Impromptus today, I begin with memories of Richard V. Allen, the conservative foreign-policy hand, who passed away earlier this month at 88.
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A public sculpture of the English Romantic poet, John Keats, has been unveiled this week close to his birthplace on Moorgate in the City of London and on...
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A new English course, The Tortured Poets Department, introduces students to 18th- and 19th-century lyric poetry through the music of Taylor Swift,...
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John Keats Abernathy passed away on Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93.
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John Milton died 350 years ago, leaving behind Paradise Lost, a poem composed in a state of deep despair. Blind, alone, and reeling from the failures of the...
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A morning of precociously early snow did not spoil this year's harvest of fall colors. The yellowwood tree outside my window, true to its name,...
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