The Truth of Imagination
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From the 1st of June to the 10th, Keats House, Hampstead hosts the Keats House Summer Festival. Fantastic events include fascinating talks not only on Keats but also on Dickens and specific areas of London, alongside craft workshops and events for Children. Click on the link to take to the page dedicated to the festival on the House website.
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The best reading of John Keats’ wonderful Ode to a Nightingale so far, in my humble opinion of course. Ben Wishaw reads it without the public or drama school accent that would be so unlike Keats’ own.
This poem has inspired so many poets and writers in the past 190 odd years. To my shame I only found out recently that F. Scott Fitzgerald took the title ‘Tender is the Night’ from stanza 4.
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On my blog over at No wriggling out of writing, I look at a recent paper that suggests John Keats’ inspiration for his great Ode ‘To Autumn’ may not have been the Winchester water meadows as previously thought. However, the spot is not a million miles away, and the Winchester tourist board need not worry too much….
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Song - I had a dove… by John Keats
The first four lines of this ‘song’ by Keats are so very clever as a metaphor for possessive love..
I HAD a dove and the sweet dove died;
And I have thought it died of grieving:
O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied,
With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving;
Sweet little red feet! why should you die -
Why should you leave me, sweet bird! why?
You liv’d alone in the forest-tree,
Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me?
I kiss’d you oft and gave you white peas;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees?
Published in Posthumous & Fugitive Poems
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On my blog, a tribute to Joseph Severn who, this morning 191 years ago today, saw in the dawn of the first day after the death of John Keats, whom he nursed in the last months of his life in Rome.
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The Keats Brothers - the life of John & George by Denise Gigante
I have posted a review of this very interesting, well researched and accessible biography linking the life of the poet John Keats with the experience of his brother George in Kentucky as one of the early English settlers in America.
It is of interest to lovers of poetry, biography an history - most particularly that of Kentucky and Illinois. You will meet swindlers, enjoy bear grease sandwiches and learn that John Keats’s greatest poetry was directly influenced by the physical distance between the brothers.
Go to by blog No wriggling out of writing for the full review.
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On my blog: I look at the 13 months of writing that produced some of the greatest poetry in the English language.
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John Mullen in The Guardian yesterday chose the ballad ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats as one of his ‘10 of the Best: Seductions’. Keats shares the list with a diverse mix of writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Winterson and Coetzee.
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THE KEATS-SHELLEY PRIZE 2012
Competition for Essays and Poems on Romantic Themes
£3,000 in Prize Money
Winning Entries will be published
Essays can be on any aspect of the works or lives of Keats, Shelley, Mary Shelley, Byron and their circles.
The theme for the poem this year is Gold.
Prize Chair 2012: award winning travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron CBE, President of the Royal Society of Literature.
Judges panel: poets John Hartley-Williams and Matthew Sweeney;
Professor Simon Bainbridge and Professor Sharon Ruston.
The deadline for entries is 30th June 2012
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29th January 2012 at Keats House Hampstead from 3pm to 4pm.
‘Trace the theme of Imagination in Keats’s life, with readings from his poetry and letters, and from biographies’
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A useful introduction to the life and work of John Keats, including transcripts and images of original manuscripts.
The first page of Hyperion
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On my blog - a John Keats poem that speaks to all of us as we go into a new year with ambitions we long to realise but lack the confidence to pursue.
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Bronze statue of John Keats by sculptor Stuart Williamson, located in an alcove from the old London Bridge which sits in the grounds of Guy’s Hospital where the poet undertook his medical training..
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On our return from this circuit, we ordered dinner, and set forth about a mile and a half on the Penrith road, to see the Druid temple. We had a fag up hill, rather too near dinner-time, which was rendered void by the gratification of seeing those aged stones on a gentle rise in the midst of the Mountains, which at that time darkened all around, except at the fresh opening of the Vale of St. John.
John Keats 1818. Walking in the Lake District with Charles Brown and visiting the Castlerigg Stone Circle.
Photo crediy: Żaneta Miderska
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