Keats went on to study medicine, but abandoned the career in 1816. “He gives it up, I think, because he realises what a good ...

In Our Time is a BBC Studios Production Spanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Haste makes waste, so the saying goes. Director Jane Campion has no intention of wasting the love story of the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, his neighbor ...

From the time he began publishing poems in his early 20s, through his tragic death at 25, and then beyond into his posthumous afterlife as a Romantic poet sui generis, John Keats' literary reputation ...

I had visited Rome twice before, rushing from one grand monument to another—the Colosseum, the Vatican, the Roman ...

Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

When I read John Keats's poetry in high school and college, I had a particularly vivid picture of the poet: pale and elfin—hardly five feet tall—with longish, curling brown hair, large eyes, and a ...

O Thou whose face hath felt the Winter's wind, Whose eye has seen the snow-clouds hung in mist, And the black elm tops 'mong the freezing stars, To thee the spring will be a harvest-time. O thou, ...

“Write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, ...

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 ...