Another long letter
Those were the days when conversations at a distance had to be committed to paper, and I like Bronte's preparation...
A hospital for poets
The 18th century German poet Friedrich Hölderlin considers philosophy as a possible cure - or at least refuge - for...
Pebble pusher
Keats, known as a poet, was also one of history’s great letter writers.  He loved life and seized it even...
The backward bin
John Keats' letters are full of wry humour and playfulness, interwoven with a rage to live and frustration and despair...
A letter by boat and about a boat
This letter is magical. It is delivered by boat and announces the arrival of another boat at an assignation point.
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Mail at last
We forget, swamped as we are with constant connectivity, the past hunger for letters and news when travelling. I remember...
A long lane
Keats had a humbling capacity to squeeze out moments of joy even while grappling with the illness which would kill...
War and letters
Letters were a lifeline for people in war, whether fighting it or waiting for someone who was, or simply trying...
In my pocket, in my heart
From time to time I receive a long and handwritten letter from one of my brothers and I am long...
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...
Sea-stained letters
A source of sorrow to the Hale family is the injustice inflicted on their son and brother, Frederick. Wanted for...
A letter in the dark
A desperate and yet hopeful act, this. People throwing letters out of trains taking them to the gulag, trusting that...
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