If, in John Keats’s famous declaration, “a thing of beauty is a joy forever,” his poems and letters will long endure as sources of jubilation. His odes—“to a Nightingale,” “on a Grecian Urn” and “on ...
The Conversation: John Keats: how his poems of death and lost youth are resonating during COVID‑19
In John Keats’ poems, death crops up 100 times more than the future, a word that appears just once in the entirety of his work. This might seem appropriate on the 200th anniversary of the death of ...
John Keats: how his poems of death and lost youth are resonating during COVID‑19
Eight letters that John Keats penned to his fiancée before his untimely death are “the literary find of a lifetime” ...
Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...
The Guardian: John Keats’s love letters returned to owner after being stolen in the 1980s
John Keats’s love letters returned to owner after being stolen in the 1980s
Rising Kashmir: John Keats and the Future of Feeling: His Poetic Relevance Today
In an age of instant communication, artificial intelligence, and relentless political and economic anxiety, the Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) may appear, ...
We tend to think of John Keats as, in Lucasta Miller’s provocative phrase, “the most romantic of the Romantic poets.” He’s the pure soul—so the legend goes—who died at only 25, penniless, passionately ...