Keats went on to study medicine, but abandoned the career in 1816. “He gives it up, I think, because he realises what a good ...

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 ...

John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic poet on his deathbed with tuberculosis aged 25, sedated with laudanum and opium. Engraving after portrait by Joseph Severn. From "Old and New London: A ...

‘THE best biography of John Keats . . . was written by himself, all unconscious of what he was doing,’ said the late H. Buxton Forman, editor in chief of Keats’s prose and verse. It may have been this ...

Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

The English poet originally trained in medicine, where he would have encountered bodysnatchers. Kelly Grovier reveals disquieting clues in odes written 200 years ago. Did the English Romantic poet ...

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 ...

In the village of Hampstead, England, John Keats wrote most of his great odes and mature poems in a two-family house he shared with his friend Charles Brown. He also lived an acutely pent-up existence ...

Instead of killing himself, Keats ate a nectarine. This was September 22, 1819. Melancholy generally — though he balanced his blues with a sanguine generosity his many friends admired — Keats was now ...