The poet John Keats died, horribly, two hundred years ago this month, his lungs so ravaged by tuberculosis that the doctors in Rome who carried out the autopsy couldn't understand how he had breathed ...

Robert Pinsky reviews Lucasta Miller’s “Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.” By Robert Pinsky When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

This is an epitaph by Robert Burns. It was written in 1787 and is read here by Barbara Rafferty. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) was a Scottish poet who towards the end of his life suffered from mental ...

The Christian poet and hymnodist William Cowper (1731-1800) at times in his life believed that he was already and irrevocably damned: damned to hell, and facing the additional doom of carrying that ...

The whole tragedy-turned-circus that led yesterday to the execution of Timothy McVeigh ended with a poem. Given the chance to make a final statement in life, McVeigh released a handwritten copy of ...

When news about the passing away of Nigeria's celebrated poet, Ikeogu Oke, broke last week, not many people believed it was true considering that he was consistent in the public sphere as a celebrity ...

Critic Miller (The Brontë Myth) considers the life of English poet John Keats (1795–1821) via nine of his poems in this detailed and original study. Melding biography, close reading, and personal ...

Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) was a Scottish poet who towards the end of his life suffered from mental health problems and died in Edinburgh bedlam. Although his life was short his poems were published ...

Since studying Keats for A-Level, his poetry has been etched on my brain. So I'll be intrigued to read this new short biography of the Romantic poet, published in time for the bicentenary of his death ...