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Utter this phrase to just about any English Lit major and chances are they will know whom you are talking about. So why the nebulous expression and what...
“Love is my religion—I could die for that”: the bicentenary of the death of English poet John Keats (1795–1821) On February 21, 1821, the 25-year-old English poet John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome. To mark the bicentenary, the British School at Rome streamed a production of Pelé Cox’s 2014 play Lift Me Up, I Am Dying about the poet’s last weeks, as he was tended to by the artist Joseph Severn. Posthumous portrait of John Keats by William Hilton. National Portrait Gallery, London The play was first produced at Rome’s Keats-Shelley museum, located in the house near the Spa...
Mahir Ali THE headstone above a final resting place dug in Rome’s non-Catholic cemetery 200 years ago today bears the indelible inscription: “This grave contains all that was mortal of a young English poet who, on his death bed, in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tomb stone: ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water’.” There is a harp above the inscription, but no name. As some readers might have guessed, the mortal remains are those of John Keats, the bicentenary of whose distressingly premature demise w...