In his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" — which many of us perhaps first encountered in high school English class — John Keats asks readers to contemplate a different conception of time. The speaker is ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend ...

“The Grave of Keats,” 1873 by Walter Crane. (Photo by Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Like a lot of people who get their understanding of the world from books, I fell in love twice when ...

We tend to think of John Keats as, in Lucasta Miller’s provocative phrase, “the most romantic of the Romantic poets.” He’s the pure soul—so the legend goes—who died at only 25, penniless, passionately ...

“Write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, ...