The Bulletin

On Poetry: Tragedy of Keats' life, death shown in his many works

"Bright Star,” a popular recent movie about the relationship between English Romantic poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, has caused a stir and reawakened the general interest in the poetry of this ...
The Conversation

John Keats: how his poems of death and lost youth are resonating during COVID-19

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PBS

In poet John Keats’ letters, a man full of life just before he died

Romantic poet John Keats is best known for his odes, epics and sonnets. But in his short lifetime he also wrote dozens of letters to siblings and friends, which are now surfacing together online for ...
NBC News

No one's life should be defined by the circumstances of their death. Even John Keats'.

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 ...
The Atlantic

A Reading in the Letters of John Keats

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 ...
The Conversation

Keats’s ode To Autumn warns about mass surveillance and social sharing

A longer version of this essay will appear in John Keats’s Medical Imagination, ed. Nicholas Roe (Palgrave, 2017). John Keats’s ode To Autumn is one of the best-loved poems in the English language.