An Evening in the "Simultaneity of Eternity"—with Shakespeare, Keats, and William Warfield
The following is a workshop and dialogue on the art of classical poetic recitation. We at The Chained Muse believe that a revival of...
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By Daniel Leach
- Sep 27, 2022
- 4 min
Aesthetic Impressions of an American Poet in Rome
“Go thou to Rome, at once the paradise, the grave, the city and the wilderness,…” Percy Byssche Shelley wrote his beautiful elegy on the...
By David B. Gosselin
- Jun 28, 2022
- 8 min
Beyond the Lines: Keats' "Ode on Indolence"
Throughout the ages, scholars, academics, and scientists have wondered, “What is creativity?” In the spring of 1819, John Keats...
By David B. Gosselin
- Aug 15, 2021
- 15 min
Lessons from a Grecian Urn Part II: The Paradox of the “One” and the “Many”
This is Part II to the series on Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn”. Part I can be found here. Chapter II: What is Poetry? The yearning for...
By David B. Gosselin
- Aug 5, 2021
- 18 min
Lessons from a Grecian Urn Part I: Truth and Beauty in Art
An object is perfect, when everything manifold in it accords with the unity of its concept; it is beautiful, when its perfection appears...
The Editors
- Feb 22, 2021
- 1 min
200 Years Later: Mapping Keats's Progress with Dr. Kim Blank
Professor Kim Blank, author of Mapping Keats's Progress, joins the New Lyre Podcast to discuss the astounding poetic development of John...
The Editors
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
200 Years Later: John Keats' Great Odes and the Future of Poetry
In the spring of 1819, Keats experienced one of the greatest bursts of creativity in the history of science and art. Among other works,...
By Adam Sedia
- Jan 27, 2021
- 6 min
Beyond the Lines: Ode on Melancholy
An ode on melancholy might conjure the worst stereotypes of poetry: restless youth agonizing over imagined existential crises – a...
By Daniel Leach
- Feb 23, 2019
- 34 min
Profile in Poetry: Keats' Great Odes & the Sublime
This article is republished with permission from the author. When John Keats died in Rome on Feb. 23, 1821, at the age of 25, the world...
By Fred Haight
- Nov 3, 2018
- 1 min
A Recitation of John Keats' Poetry; a Lecture on the Origin of Language and Music
By Fred Haight This video discusses the origin of language in classical poetry rather than prose, the birth of both music and poetry from...
By David B. Gosselin
- Oct 29, 2018
- 32 min
Why John Keats Is Not a Romantic
While most professors and critics place John Keats in the same category of poets as Romantics like Lord Byron, William Wordsworth and...
By David B. Gosselin
- Nov 1, 2017
- 1 min
In Memory of John Keats (1795 – 1821)
If time must all accounts settle And with all mortals seek requital How should the earthly heaven afford When in time death’s train all...
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