John Keats

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

“I shall try what I can do in the Apothecary line”: John Keats’s medical years

by Mellany Ambrose John Keats spent five years, a fifth of his tragically short life, studying and training to…

Lynn Shepherd21st June 2023

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

Sharp practice? New light on Keats’s final journey

Review of a talk by Alessandro Gallenzi at the Oxford Literary Festival by Lynn Shepherd “Why would we need…

Lynn Shepherd31st March 2023

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

The Life of John Keats: Who Was Who? Part III

by Ian Reynolds This is the third in a series of linked posts My first and second posts looked at…

Lynn Shepherd11th January 2023

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

The Life of John Keats: Who Was Who? Part II

The second in a series of linked posts by Ian Reynolds My first post looked at ‘Who was who’ in…

Lynn Shepherd21st November 2022

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

The Eve of St Agnes: ’Practising Poetry and Pharmacy’

by Gareth Evans The old English apprentice system could be said to have had trouble built into it. Taking fifteen-year-olds…

Lynn Shepherd8th November 2022

John Keats William Wordsworth Wordsworth and Romanticism

Fingal’s Cave and the Romantics

by Fred Blick Fingal’s Cave is on the Scottish island of Staffa. It is 72 feet tall and 270 feet…

Lynn Shepherd7th July 2022

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

John Keats’s attitude to Clergymen

by Leslie Katz © Trustees of the British Museum In the above print dated 30th April 1819, George Cruikshank satirised…

Lynn Shepherd10th February 2022

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

Isabella after Keats – A potted history

by Gareth Evans Like dreams, nothing is insignificant in Pre-Raphaelite paintings. They teem with precisely chosen details: architecture, costumes,…

Lynn Shepherd18th January 2022

John Keats

Keats and the Belfast cotton industry

by Penelope Hemingway We heard on passing into Belfast through a most wretched suburb that most disgusting of all…

Lynn Shepherd6th September 2021

John Keats Wordsworth and Romanticism

Ode to Melancholy: Keats through the Looking Glass

by Gareth Evans Once, while reading in a library that I used to haunt, I had an unexpected feeling…

Lynn Shepherd15th July 2021

“I shall try what I can do in the Apothecary line”: John Keats’s medical years

Sharp practice? New light on Keats’s final journey

The Life of John Keats: Who Was Who? Part III

The Life of John Keats: Who Was Who? Part II

The Eve of St Agnes: ’Practising Poetry and Pharmacy’

Fingal’s Cave and the Romantics

John Keats’s attitude to Clergymen

Isabella after Keats – A potted history

Keats and the Belfast cotton industry

Ode to Melancholy: Keats through the Looking Glass

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