The Romantic period is often associated with celebrating the natural world and the idea of the author as a lone genius, composing verse in an abstract, dreamlike state. Today, Romanticism is being redefined as distinctively political, collaborative and metropolitan.
Our new ‘Young Romantics in the City’ exhibition seeks to reveal some of the diversity of writers and writing at that time and explore this new thinking through the interconnected themes of Politics, Class, Gender and Race.
Keats House is open Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, 11am – 1pm and 2 – 4pm.
Find out more at www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/keats
‘Young Romantics in the City’ is a partnership project between Keats House and Cardiff University. The exhibition is co-curated by Dr Anna Mercer, Lecturer in English Literature, and Keats House.
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We have some fabulous #KeatsInspired events in June, including Afternoon Poems on Sunday 12 June, a full-day flower pressing workshop with Elaine Duigenan on Saturday 18 June, and a 'Poetical Evening with Julian Sands' on Thursday 30 June.
Book your ticket now at: https://keatsevents.eventbrite.co.uk/
Visit the new 'Keats Inspired' exhibition at Keats House Museum to discover who inspired Keats and his enduring influence on our lives today.
Throughout his life Keats was inspired by Spenser and Milton, as well as his contemporaries Coleridge and Wordsworth. Above all, he particularly admired Shakespeare, whom he called his ‘Chief Poet’.
During Keats’s lifetime and after his death, his friends championed and preserved his work, leading to a rediscovery of his poetry from the mid 19th century.
Over the past 200 years, Keats’s poetry has influenced and inspired a wide range of artists working in different fields and we hope this exhibition inspires you to (re)discover Keats and perhaps try something creative too.
Our 'Keats Inspired' exhibition is open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Sundays, 11am-1pm & 2-5pm and is included with admission to Keats House.
Find out more about visiting Keats House Museum: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/attractions-museums-entertainment/keats-house/visit-keats-house
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‘This is a mere matter of the moment – I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.’
Today, on the 200th anniversary of Keats's death in Rome, pause to consider his Death and Legacy: www.ourcitytogether.london/do/keats200-death-and-legacy
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One year before his death, Keats realised he had consumption, an incurable illness that caused him to stop writing poetry and take the painful decision to leave Hampstead for Italy. Suffer the journey with Keats at:
www.ourcitytogether.london/do/keats200-keats-and-consumption
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'Shall I give you Miss Brawne?'
‘beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange,’ wrote John Keats to his brother George in December 1818.
Discover more about Fanny Brawne at www.ourcitytogether.london/do/keats200-fanny-brawne
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Keats moved in to Wentworth Place, Hampstead (now Keats House) on 1 December 1818. This was the day we chose to mark the beginning of the #Keats200 bicentenary in 2018.
Find out more about this special place for Keats at www.ourcitytogether.london/do/keats200-wentworth-place
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By the end of 1816 Keats could no longer balance both his work at Guy's Hospital and his writing. He chose poetry.
Find out more about Keats's 'Medical Training' and how it influenced his writing at www.ourcitytogether.london/do/keats200-medical-training
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