• A Thing of Beauty

  • The Life and Poetry of John Keats
  • By: John Cousins
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins

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A Thing of Beauty

By: John Cousins
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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"Cousins has given us a compelling biography of Keats' short and tragic life."
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It is difficult;
To get the news from poems;
Yet men die miserably every day;
For lack;
Of what is found there.
William Carlos Williams

John Keats composed the most glorious jewels in the crown of English poetry. His are the most perfect poems in English. His letters are also considered a great literary achievement where he developed his ideas and concepts on art and life. The ability to transcend self by emotionally merging with nature's beauty became an essential credo for John Keats. His feelings on the subject resonated with classical philosophy and the principle of love for the good and beautiful. These ideas would ultimately become Keats's justification for embracing the life affirming importance of the aesthetic life. This credo began to emerge in Endymion whose first line is, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

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