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In the poem it is almost as though the medically-trained poet has understood that his life will soon end and he is preparing himself for death. Keats died in 1821 aged just 25. Despite his short ...

English poet John Keats will be immortalised in a bronze sculpture ... in the heart of the City of London, a short distance from his birthplace on what would have ...

Nicole Gibbons reflects on a recent trip to the grave of John Keats, Romantic poet, and his house-turned-museum in Rome ...

In short, Stevenson had from the beginning an ... We know his talk; a little more, and we should hear it: "Keats,--John Keats, sir,--he was a very fine poet." A book like The Amateur Emigrant ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

I trust that each of us has a reasonably informed idea of what constitutes poetry, an idea which would include the writings of Emily Dickinson, John Donne ... doctrine and even the limits of orthodoxy ...

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The course will consider these ideas in the poetry of Blake, Novalis, Eichendorff, Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Goethe, Keats, Whitman, Rilke, Eliot and Celan. John Burt and Stephen Dowden ENG 109b, Fiction ...

You can discover a lot about a poem by comparing it to one by another author that deals with a similar subject. You could compare features such as theme, form, structure, rhythm, language and ...