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 ...

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

If the poet John Keats—fresh, fainting, convulsed by illness for much of his short life—could speak to us from beyond the grave, what would he say? More to the point, how would he say it? Keats didn’t ...

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 ...

A dying John Keats wrote to his love Fanny Brawne, “If I should die I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all ...

No publication on Keats could be more acceptable just now than a complete edition of his letters. It was high time for someone to include in a definitive edition the correspondence discovered in ...