Keats went on to study medicine, but abandoned the career in 1816. “He gives it up, I think, because he realises what a good ...

We will be exploring the rich and varied poetry of what has come to be called the romantic period. While over the course of the nineteenth century, critics arrived at some consensus about what ...

“Romantic” is one of those words that has traveled so far from its original meaning, and been used in so many different contexts, that by now it seems to mean almost anything. Keats’s Odes and “Roses ...

Popstar Charli XCX is turning her hand to acting in the new film Erupcja. In it, she recites Lord Byron's poem Darkness. Charli and Byron may be 200 years apart, but the legacies of Romantic poetry ...

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