Keatsian Links
 

Literature Online: A brief biography of John Keats
http://longman.awl.com/kennedy/keats/biography.html
This biography is succinct, well-written and a nice assessment of Keats's life and career.

John Keats
http://www.john-keats.com
Thilo's site has lots of information, including commentary on various poems and a lengthy biography.
It also has a selection of letters and a Forum page where you can meet and chat with other Keats enthusiasts.  There is a shop which lists Keats-related books.

Atlantic Unbound: Soundings: To Autumn
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/soundings/keats.htm
Four writers recite one of Keats's most famous odes.  There is an introductory essay as well.

John Keats and the Modern World
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mn3ims/index%202.htm
This site explores Keats's relevance to modern life, as well as the meaning of several works.

Britannica.com: John Keats
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/3/0,5716,46003+1+44958,00.html?query=john%20keats
An introduction to Keats's life at Britannica.com's website.

Bartleby's Poetical Works of John Keats
http://www.bartleby.com/126/index.html
Another place to read Keats's poetry, complete with notes and an introduction.

Temple of Many Gods: John Keats
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1805/jkeats.html
An interesting site with some fun facts about Keats.

John Keats: An exhibit at the British Library
http://portico.bl.uk/exhibitions/keats/overview.html
An internet site for the 1996 Keats exhibit at the British Library.


Further Reading: Some of my favorite websites / articles:

Oh, to be in England!  Poetry and Self-Pity
This essay is by Theodore Dalrymple, from the winter 1998 City Journal.  Dalrymple (it's a pen name) is a doctor and accomplished writer; his most famous work is Life at the Bottom.  You may also enjoy What's Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks?, his summer 2003 article.  In case you're wondering, the title is taken from Lawrence's horrible Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Boston Comment
Joan Houlihan has a series of articles at WebDelSol which explore the state of contemporary poetry.  Yes, she has lots of fun at the expense of bad poets.  But she loves poetry and makes cogent points about its sad decline.

Can Poetry Matter?
This is Dana Gioia's influential and controversial 1991 article for The Atlantic Monthly.

Richard Daughty's entertaining commentary, for those of us who think economics is not a science.

Arts & Letters Daily always has interesting links to follow.

Motorcycle.com has everything you want to know (or didn't know you wanted to know) about - you guessed it - motorcycles!

Visit Space.com if you, too, like to occasionally wander outside with a telescope and curse the light pollution which is the bane of modern life.

Turner Classic Movies is what I watch while I'm working on this website.  And it usually distracts me from actually completing the work.


Do you have a Keats-related website?  Send me the link!

 

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