John Keats

AP 's father, Bryan Waller Procter , was a successful London barrister. As Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy (from 1832 to 1861) he participated in the gradual shift from use of physical...

One of ESVM 's close friends was the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie . Wylie visited Steepletop with her husband in 1927 and the two poets discussed and sometimes disagreed about Shelley and Keats and...

CCC was an important early friend of John Keats . He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt , Douglas Jerrold , Charles and Mary Lamb , and Charles Dickens . Most of these friendships were...

MCC 's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles and Mary Lamb , Leigh Hunt

While living in Esher, the Porter family were neighbours of Prince Leopold , resident of Claremont and widower of Princess Charlotte (who died in 1817); their mother used to receive gifts of game and fruit...

His fuller description (in a letter to his sister) was not so pleasant, something between Jeremy Bentham and Meg Merrilies, very clever, but awfully revolutionary.

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

NS 's foreword mentions a great deal that has happened in the thirty years since this book was written, although those years are the flicker of an eyelid in the life of a mountain: the...

The book was highly derivative. Though she had just discovered the poems of Pablo Neruda , CAD describes the contents of the volume as a mixture of Keats and Sylvia Plath and Dylan Thomas and...

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

MD formed the desire to be a poet while she was a child: I wouldn't marry or have children but would follow in the penprints of my hero Keats . While she was at...

She writes often here about the landscape and plants at Steepletop, using them as a metaphor for life and joy and the past. The final piece included in her Selected Poems, 2003, a...

The volume was well reviewed, and poems were reprinted in two magazines. Literary commentators like Thomas Park , Joseph Cooper Walker , and Joseph Martin , assured Robert Anderson of their admiration.

For SN , writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet....

These poems deal in passing time and final partings, with the sudden recognition of changes accumulated over years. The magic cloak of invisibility longed for by children comes in the end unsought for and the...