'The Weariness, the Fever and the Fret': Writing Illness, Health and John Keats – Young Poets Network
‘The Weariness, the Fever and the Fret’: Writing Illness, Health and John Keats In honour of Keats200, the bicentenary celebration of the poet John Keats’s life, works, and legacy, poet Amy Mackelden has set us a new challenge. She offers writing prompts and poems that explore illness, and use our bodies as inspiration. The challenge: write a poem inspired by John Keats, illness poetry, and the pandemic John Keats was born in London in 1795, and in his short life made a huge impact on English poetry. He was a brilliant writer of odes, sonnets and long romances. Unlike many of the other ...
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