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 ...

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 ...

No publication on Keats could be more acceptable just now than a complete edition of his letters. It was high time for someone to include in a definitive edition the correspondence discovered in ...

John Keats was just 25 when he died in Rome, convinced that his name was “writ in water”. Two centuries later, his words endure: from the aching cadences of Ode to a Nightingale to the mellow ripeness ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This year is the bicentenary of the death of the poet John Keats. Aged 25, he died in his room beside the ...

John Keats, the poet of "beauty", a devotee of aesthetic isolation who swooned at the thought of his so-called "bright star" Fanny Brawne and succumbed to TB when he was 25, was an opium addict. The ...

Romantic poet John Keats is best known for his odes, epics and sonnets. But in his short lifetime he also wrote dozens of letters to siblings and friends, which are now surfacing together online for ...