The Columbia disaster sent me to the bookshelves for Poems of Mourning (Knopf, $12.50; 254 pp.) edited by Peter Washington. Published in 1998, it's a volume in the Everyman Library Pocket Poets series ...
BroadwayWorld: Sondheim: Lyrics (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) - by Stephen Sondheim
We tend to think of John Keats as, in Lucasta Miller’s provocative phrase, “the most romantic of the Romantic poets.” He’s the pure soul—so the legend goes—who died at only 25, penniless, passionately ...
What better gift for a literature lover than this handsome little collection of Irish poems? Of course, the writers and wits of the Emerald Isle have always had a penchant for verse, and this tiny ...
The Independent: ‘That drop of blood is my death warrant’: Keats and the poetry of suffering
The poet John Keats made his way back from central London to the house he shared with Charles Brown in Hampstead. He was seated on the outside of the stagecoach through a bitter February evening to ...
‘That drop of blood is my death warrant’: Keats and the poetry of suffering
BBC: John Keats – How did the romantic poet produce so much brilliant work in his short lifetime?
John Keats left his fledgling medical career behind to become a poet, but the critical reception of his early work was scathing – some published reviews called him an uncouth cockney who should have ...
John Keats – How did the romantic poet produce so much brilliant work in his short lifetime?
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