My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in ...

All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

O, what can ail thee, knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering; The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. O, what can ail thee, knight at arms, So haggard and so woe-begone?

Keats initially trained as a surgeon but gave it up to write poetry. Six months after completing To Autumn, he experienced the first signs of the tuberculosis that would end his life. In the poem ...

His name was John Keats. We don't really know a great deal ... I think that must've made his experience of life more intense and his poetry more passionate. I'm sure in this poem, the lover ...

This video is a reading of ‘To Autumn’ by John Keats. It is a poem in praise of autumn. Content, ideas, language and structure are explored. Comparisons and alternative interpretations are ...

In fact, while he admired Keats, Clare thought that his contemporary was writing about nature to suit his imagination, rather than the other way round. In Our Time on R4 - the Poetry of John Clare ...

As readers we are invited to share in Keats’ thought process. We are effectively drawn in by a lively and vibrant description before being asked to consider one of life’s big questions – why ...