John Keats

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Standard Name: Keats, John
Painting of John Keats by William Hilton after Joseph Severn. Keats is seated with an open book in front of him, his chin on his hand, gazing into the distance. National Portrait Gallery.
Bronze statue of John Keats, sitting on a bench with a book under his hands, turning his head as if he were listening. Guys Hospital, London.

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Textual Features Eliza Cook
Her poetic topics strongly reflect her reliance on well-tried promoters of sentiment: death, parting, gypsies, favourite horses and dogs, local feeling for Scotland or Ireland. The collection closes with a section of poems for...
Textual Features Vernon Lee
Set in the fictional German Duchy of Luna and beginning in about 1701, this story is centred on the orphaned Prince Alberic and his fascination with two apparitions which are clearly linked: a sympathetic serpent...
Textual Features Mary Stewart
These are highly literary poems. In her preface MS invokes Keats . She writes on mythological topics, both Biblical (Eve, Cain, Mary) and classical (Icarus, Persephone). She titles poems with an eye to her predecessors...
Textual Features Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Titled simply September 2014 and headed with a Gaelic greeting that translates as I love you, this short poem highlights the shared prickliness of the two national symbols and the pilgrimage of an English...
Textual Features Augusta Webster
Like much of AW 's later poetry, this inaugural volume shows the influence of Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , as well as earlier poets such as John Keats . Many poems here, including...
Textual Features Sylvia Townsend Warner
One poem, Wish in Spring, opposes Keats 's notion that writing poetry comes naturally: STW points out that it is a difficult activity which takes great care.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Textual Features Maureen Duffy
Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978.
Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton, 1979.
64, 85
Many handle the world's headline griefs; many record the tiny deaths of animals. The opening poem, Memorials of the...
Textual Production Mary Augusta Ward
MAW planned her next novel as a much weightier study of the intellectual impact of historical thought on conventional faith; it was deeply influenced by the intellectual milieu of Oxford and the histories of her...
Textual Production Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS published in New YorkThe Happy Tree, a novel which appeared next year in London as The Treasures of the Snow.
The original title refers to the tree in Keats 's Stanzas...
Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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Textual Production James Tiptree Jr.
The words come from Keats 's La Belle Dame Sans Merci, whose speaker finds his non-human lover has unfitted him for normal human interactions. Xenophilia was a favourite preoccupation of Sheldon/Tiptree. This story appeared...
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
The title (shamelessly re-used by verse anthologists working after EF ) is a quotation from Keats 's Ode to a Nightingale, where the magic windows open on the foam / Of perilous seas, in...
Textual Production Barbara Pym
BP published the last novel of her lifetime, The Sweet Dove Died.
The title implies, in a manner both sentimental and canonical, death in captivity. (In this it hearkens back to the title of...
Textual Production Freya Stark
The title echoes a phrase from Keats 's sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer.

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