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...Across the glossy stretch of lawn, you can almost hear the nightingales singing “of summer in full-throated ease,” as John Keats wrote in his famous ode....
...“Was that John Keats?” She laughs heartily. “Go for it, because then we can see if the clouds work out.”...
...A difficult state of mind to achieve is the one John Keats described as “negative capability”. This is a tolerance and even active preference for nuance....
...Maybe Keats had it right. Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, and one ineffable thing can only be explained in the terms of another. Beauty is mysterious even to its creator....
...I live near the old home of — now a museum devoted to — John Keats. His poems are too soulful and nature-smitten for as arid a man as me. But one phrase he invented is ever useful....
...We Brits have always had a melancholic streak, preferring Keats to Wordsworth and celebrating DH Lawrence. The Smiths’ “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” couldn’t have been a hit in any other country....
...“Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold” is the opening line of a poem by John Keats about first looking into which book? Thomas of Torquemada was the first leader of what?...
...The morning room displays a book of John Keats poetry inscribed by William to his wife for Christmas 1854. In the couple’s bedroom, a wardrobe houses Gaskell’s Brussels lace wedding veil....
...Keats, who first used the term in an 1817 letter....
...He sent Keats to a school in Enfield, run by the excellent John Clarke, where Keats learnt Greek and Latin and had to garden....
...The animated poem 'To John' exposes the impact of humans on nature over those 200 years....
...Letters in response to this article: Washington’s aim is to exploit Beijing’s missteps / From Collins Chong Yew Keat, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Domestic politics was real trigger for...
...The poet John Keats used the term “negative capability” to describe a human acceptance of uncertainty, restraining the drive for limitless control....
...The 200th anniversary of John Keats’ death from tuberculosis in Rome at the age of 25 was marked on February 23....
...The bicentenary of the death of John Keats falls today, and in a normal year, a new production of the play Lift Me Up, I Am Dying would have taken place in Rome, in the Keats-Shelley museum, located in the...
...Nicholas Roe’s scholarly and succinct John Keats: A New Life (2012) remains definitive....
...Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaphby Lucasta Miller, Jonathan Cape £17.99 It was 200 years ago this year that John Keats died of tuberculosis....
...The Extasieby John Gallas, Carcanet £12.99 New Zealand-born, UK-based Gallas fills his 12th Carcanet collection with resounding echoes of John Donne, Thomas Wyatt and John Clare....
...Her quest to understand her sister is fluidly interwoven with reflections on iconic consumptives of the past, from John Keats to the dying heroines of La traviata and La bohème....
...The heath was hymned by Romantic poets in the early 19th century — Keats, Shelley and Leigh Hunt had formed “a nest of singing birds” at Hunt’s house on the Vale of Health (a sleepy satellite of Hampstead...
...The poets Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton and John Keats were all born there. But its focus long ago switched to business....
...The only suitable one available at the time was The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould, worth £50,000 and too delicate and valuable to borrow....
...In his Modern Painters, John Ruskin shredded Wendell Holmes’ verses....
...The 200th anniversary of the death of Keats in marked by Lucasta Miller in Keats (Jonathan Cape, February), a “brief life in nine poems and one epitaph”....
...This is a slur to young poetic geniuses such as John Keats and Arthur Rimbaud — not to mention Leicester’s own teenage intellectual, Adrian Mole, who was approaching his own O-levels (as GCSEs were then...
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