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  • 27 Apr 2017
    Susan Wolfson

    Celebrating National Poetry Month: 200 years since ‘Poems’ by John Keats

    Let’s imagine, having read four sonnets published in the radical weekly, The Examiner, by young poet John Keats, seeing the announcement of John Keats’s first volume Poems (published 3 March 1817), and then, on the very next day, reeling when a reactionary ministry secured the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Lord Sidmouth gave the bill to […]

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  • 19 Nov 2016
    Susan Wolfson

    Keats Wrought up to Writing

    Keats' sonnet ''Great Spirits'' was written 200 years ago in 1816. We're celebrating this 200th anniversary with a blog post written by Susan Wolfson, author of Reading John Keats.

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  • 26 Oct 2016
    Susan Wolfson

    On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

    Two-hundred years ago, in October 1816 … . . . a brilliant young medical student, trained at Guys Hospital in London, aced his apothecary examination (apothecaries were basic practitioners).  Notwithstanding this success, John Keats, who had already been writing poetry and had published one poem (a sonnet on solitude) in Leigh Hunt’s progressive weekly newspaper, […]

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