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Category Archives: Poetry
On my way to Ambleside: Stock Ghyll Force with John Keats
On the eve of my week long holiday in the Lake District, I thought I would post this excerpt from a journal letter John Keats wrote to his brother Tom, back in London, in the early stages of his walking … Continue reading
Posted in Keats, Poetry, Travel, Writing
Tagged Cumbria, holidays, John Keats, Keats, Lake District, Poetry, writing
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Contemporising Keats – It isn’t all about the words….
I have a GoogleAlert which regularly sends me links to items that relate (even obliquely it seems) to John Keats and yesterday it included a link, not only to my recent post Blog infidelity, but to the following video that … Continue reading
Blog infidelity: or introducing The Truth of Imagination
I feel like I am being unfaithful. Or betraying a close friend perhaps. But is had to be done. I have set up a blog dedicated to all things Keats and poetry. However, it is not a replacement for No … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Keats, Poetry, Writing
Tagged blogging, John Keats, Keats, Poetry, writing
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The poetry of London: Wilfred Owen and the Ghost of Shadwell Stair
Wilfred Owen is, for many (including myself) the greatest poet of the First World War. Memorable works such Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth are part of the GCSE syllabus; Owen himself features in Pat Barker’s Regeneration … Continue reading
Posted in History, Keats, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Dockland, First World War, John Keats, London, Poetry, Shadwell, War poets, Wilfred Owen, writing
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Garden inspired by John Keats’ ‘On the Sea’ wins Gold at Hampton Court
Take a look over at my page devoted to John Keats to see the garden design inspired by the poem ‘On the Sea’ which has won Gold at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show. It is an interesting theme for … Continue reading
Words to the heart – Carol Ann Duffy on the language of love & longing
Occasionally I like to post on my blog a poem that has really touched me. Although I will always be most fond of the poetry of John Keats, I usually find those that I share on here are contemporary poems, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Writing
Tagged Books, Carol Ann Duffy, Keats, Poetry, Rapture, The Poetry Archive, writing
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Wordsworth, Whistler and a Waterloo Sunset – the beauty of London Bridges
The Thames is a river that takes me on imaginative journeys, some of them reflecting my real life and others a dream world that I have inhabited regularly since I left London in the late 1980s. From the Oxfordshire … Continue reading
Where the costumes are a cast member – Keats & Fanny Brawne as fiction in ‘Bright Star’
In December I wrote a blog post entitled Picturing John Keats - Image or Imagination? describing how I felt about the representations of Keats in art. I mentioned the 2009 film Bright Star only briefly as but another opportunity for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Keats, Poetry
Tagged Bright Star, costume, film, John Keats, Keats, Poetry, Regency
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‘Forgetfulness’ – A poem by Billy Collins, philosophy by Homer Simpson
I have been reading Billy Collins’ poetry recently, and have been struck by how he catches those very human moments that will resonate with many of us in a humorous, ‘hospitable’ (a word he apparently prefers to accessible) but incredibly … Continue reading
Keats at Guy’s Hospital part 2 – An education in horror
Looking at the National Health Service today, it is clear that despite economic constraints it offers a standard of care that renders incomprehensible to us the dreadful conditions under which people of all classes were treated in the early 19th … Continue reading
Posted in History, Keats, Poetry
Tagged body snatching, Doctors, Guy's Hospital, John Keats, Keats, London, medicine, Poetry
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