If the poet John Keats—fresh, fainting, convulsed by illness for much of his short life—could speak to us from beyond the grave, what would he say? More to the point, how would he say it? Keats didn’t ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When I read John Keats's poetry in high school and college, I had a particularly vivid picture of the poet: pale and ...

A little over a third of the way into Paul Kerschen’s debut historical novel, “The Warm South,” a character asks poet John Keats, “But you must know Mrs. Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’?” As everyone today ...

Bright Star (Apparition), Jane Campion’s new film about the brief love affair between John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne, is a thing of beauty: the rare film about the life of an artist that is ...

The agonies of John Keats's final months in Rome were partly the result of his doctor's misdiagnoses, according to a new biography. When the poet arrived in Rome from London in November of 1820, Dr ...

A dying John Keats wrote to his love Fanny Brawne, “If I should die I have left no immortal work behind me—nothing to make my friends proud of my memory—but I have lov’d the principle of beauty in all ...

Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs edited by Grant F Scott 716pp, Ashgate, £45 Everyone who loves John Keats has a soft spot for Joseph Severn. When Keats left England for Italy in the autumn of 1820, ...

AGAINST OBLIVION—Sheila Blrken-heod—Macmillan ($3). When the Nazis were driven from Rome three weeks ago, it is probable that few among the liberating forces realized that they had liberated, among ...