John Keats

Born in 1795, tragically dead of consumption by age 26, John Keats was one of the greatest English Romantic poets....

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts.

The period of English romantic poetry occurred roughly between 1800 and 1850 and was represented by poets such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth....

'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection The Complete...

Adaptation of Keats' sensual narrative poem about the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia and the innocent mortal Lycius....

The Greek god Hermes has left Olympus in search of a beautiful nymph. He comes across Lamia, a woman trapped in the form of a snake, who promises to reveal the nymph to him if he, in exchange, restores her human form so she may seek the love of Lycius, a youth of Corinth....

Keats commenced writing his epic poem, Hyperion, in 1818 and ceased working on it in the spring of 1819. The narrative is based on the Titanomachia, or War of the Titans, and describes the aftermath of their fall to the Olympian Gods....

Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1818) is a poetic retelling of a story from The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. The poem relates the sad fate of two victims of youthful love....

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads "Ode to a Nightingale", a personal poem that describes Keats's journey into a state of negative capability. The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature....

John Keats (1795-1821) was one of the foremost English Romantic poets. Despite his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 25 he had a considerable poetic output, the majority of his best-known works being written in the year 1819....

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.

"The Eve of St. Agnes" was written in January 1819. It is a Romantic Narrative poem written in 42 Spenserian stanzas. John Keats based his poem on the superstition that a girl could see her future husband in a dream if she performed certain rites on the eve of the feast of St. Agnes....

These crisply narrated sonnets are the best way to enjoy the work of John Keats. This collection contains nearly ever poem by Keats. Poems are meant to be enjoyed through audio. Whether you're a student or a fan of Keats, please enjoy....

Lamia is a narrative poem that reflects Keat's intensive exploration of Greek mythology. It first appeared in 1820 in a collection entitled Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems....

"Ode To Autumn" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats. The work was composed on 19 September, 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included "Lamia" and "The Eve of St. Agnes". "To Autumn" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's 1819 odes....

The Eve of St. Agnes was first published in 1820 in a collection containing many of Keat's best-known poems. Several of these were retellings of stories that were popular in the Middle Ages and earlier times....

Many of the short poems for which Keats has become famous were written in a burst of inspiration early in 1819, including these four odes: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche, and Ode on Melancholy....

Seien Sie, Hörer ohne Furcht und Tadel, herzlich eingeladen zu einer akustischen Erlebnisreise der besonderen Art, auf welcher Ihnen in...

Seien Sie, Hörer ohne Furcht und Tadel, herzlich eingeladen zu einer akustischen Erlebnisreise der besonderen Art, auf welcher Ihnen in...

Seien Sie, Hörer ohne Furcht und Tadel, herzlich eingeladen zu einer akustischen Erlebnisreise der besonderen Art, auf welcher Ihnen in...