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KEATS AND SICKNESS

KEATS AND SICKNESS

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Join with me to explore the world of poet John Keats, who died at the age of 25 two hundred years ago. Surrounded by sickness from an early age, having trained as an apprentice surgeon, he knew intimately the stages of his own slow death from tuberculosis.


The physical symptom of sickness and suffering suffuse his poetic imagery and dictate his themes. Even love is a sickness that can lead to decline and death.


Re-read the poetry and learn about the life of one of the greatest poets in the English language.


This podcast is made to illustrate an essay on 'Keats and the Poetry of Suffering' published here: https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/john-keats-poetry-anniversary-death-b1804720.html


I hope you enjoy these readings and thoughts.


Cover image: Portrait of John Keats on this death bed by Joseph Severn


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    • BRIGHT STAR
      Apr 7 2021

      Kit Bromovsky reads Keats's most beautiful, sensual and enduring love lyric.


      Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—

               Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night

      And watching, with eternal lids apart,

               Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,

      The moving waters at their priestlike task

               Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,

      Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask

               Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—

      No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,

               Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,

      To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

               Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

      Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

      And so live ever—or else swoon to death.


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      2 min
    • ODE ON MELANCHOLY
      Mar 11 2021

      Pleasure and sadness are intimately linked, as Jill Meager shows in her glorious reading:


      '... in the very temple of delight

      Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine.'


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      3 min
    • ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE
      Mar 10 2021

      "In the spring of 1819 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his chair from the breakfast-table to the grass-plot under a plum-tree, where he sat for two or three hours. When he came into the house, I perceived he had some scraps of paper in his hand, and these he was quietly thrusting behind the books. On inquiry, I found those scraps, four or five in number, contained his poetic feelings on the song of the nightingale." Charles Brown


      'Ode to a Nightingale' is read by Sam Fairbrother


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      6 min
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