A plea for pity – II
Keats' plea for tolerance, given we each have flaws that can be painfully exposed. See Theodore Dreiser's similar suggestion...
As cold as …
A letter from Keats to his beloved Fanny, with a kindly injunction to wrap up warmly. I loved the solicitude...
Fine writing, fine doing
My earliest impressions of Keats were as a languishing poetic type, not a man of action. Now, after getting to...
A thicket of thorns
A moment of despair for Keats, despite his resilient spirit and his desperate attempts to seize life and wring every...
The taste of brass
You can feel it can't you - that cold-surface metallic sensation in your mouth?
John Keats fell in love and...
Letters kept, letters destroyed
Given the fragility of letters, it’s astounding how many have survived centuries and even millennia. Added to which it seems...
Keats’ correspondence
Here are Keats' own aspirations for his letter-writing. Whether he found interesting matter or just made matter interesting, his letters...
Pebble pusher
Keats, known as a poet, was also one of history’s great letter writers.  He loved life and seized it even...
Anagnorisis
Normally referring to the moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery, perhaps understanding...
This is the world
Keats was one of the most life-loving people you could hope to meet, grasping with all his force every chance...
Treat ’em mean to keep ’em keen
This made me laugh, Keats' pithy analysis of the source of English literary brilliance. There are several references in his...
The backward bin
John Keats' letters are full of wry humour and playfulness, interwoven with a rage to live and frustration and despair...
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