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The doctor-turned-poet died 200 years ago.
Doubt can be uncomfortable. It is often tempting to jump to conclusions. But Keats counsels otherwise.
That none of his collections were published in apartheid South Africa testifies to the police state’s censorship.
Different and contradictory versions of the poet have existed since the first literary tourists went looking for his legacy.
Chichester Cathedral’s stone effigy famously influenced Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb. But a new discovery suggests it may have inspired the tale John Keats wrote as La Belle Dame Sans Merci too.
Keats’s Winchester walk was no idyllic stroll – he had espionage on his mind.
Was John Keats a refugee in his day? A workshop for refugees, migrants and artists took place recently at Keats-Shelley House and the story of the great Romantic poet’s life and death hit a nerve.
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