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‘Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul’

200 years ago in 1821, John Keats died in Rome aged just 25.

Follow for news marking his incredible life & talent today

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2021-02-23

‘a drama, with characters & a mechanism of a kind yet unattempted’ in 1820, P. B. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound is published. A new post on the BARS Blog by . Read more: https://t.co/GkhQnUblbJ

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2020-08-14

'Lamia reflects Keats’s career-long preoccupation with exoticism, beauty, love, death, and poetry itself'. 200 yrs ago (or c. 1 July 1820!), Keats publishes Lamia in his last volume - a new Blog post by https://t.co/rEYqFpDVvs

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2020-07-01

Not long now until around the world on 31 October! Read our Q&A series with participants to hear about what various institutions are doing to mark the event, & tweet us any more details of events so we can share. https://t.co/cq295af6sY

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2018-10-24