2018年7月11日 星期三

The Romantics BBC literature and art




Please enjoy and subscribe too. Thanks! Byron, Keats and Shelley lived short lives, but the radical way they lived them would ...
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Please enjoy and subscribe too. Thanks! Peter Ackroyd summons the ghosts of the Romantics to tell the story of man's escape ...

Peter Ackroyd reveals how the radical ideas of liberty that inspired the French Revolution opened up a world of possibility for great ...





#OTD in 1818 English poet John Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born", "Lines Written in the Highlands", and "Gadfly"
Keats has always been regarded as one of the principal figures in the Romantic movement, and his stature as a poet has grown steadily through all changes of fashion. Tennyson considered him the greatest poet of the 19th century, and Matthew Arnold commended his ‘intellectual and spiritual passion’ for beauty; in the 20th century he has been discussed and reconsidered by critics from T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis to Lionel Trilling and Christopher Ricks.

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