John Keats

By Suzie Grogan In the twenty-first century it sometimes seems that only the things that are ‘up to date’ ‘relevant’,…

scratch11th January 2015

by Colin Silver John Keats and William Wordsworth had been regular visitors to Haydon’s old lodgings in Great Marlborough Street.…

scratch8th January 2015

by Colin Silver As Christmas 1817 approached, the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon decided to throw a dinner party at his…

scratch28th December 2014

By Colin Silver William Wordsworth brought out a new, two-volume edition of his poems in 1815 and Keats bought a…

scratch25th October 2014

By Suzie Grogan The ‘spirit of place’ is important to many of us. We feel rooted in certain landscapes, or…

scratch1st October 2014

by Lynn Roberts Humans want to know things. They’re as full of ’satiable curtiosity as the Elephant’s Child, and when…

scratch10th September 2014

by Suzie Grogan John Keats has always been ‘my’ poet. I bought my first Collected Poems as a twelve-year-old in…

scratch21st May 2014

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