In raptures over Chapman’s Homer, Keats forgets who discovered the Pacific—not stout Cortez with eagle eyes but Balboa upon a peak in Darien. Where he withdrew his handkerchief and saw the death wa…
From the Collection If You Love That Lady
In raptures over Chapman’s Homer, Keats forgets
who discovered the Pacific—not stout Cortez
with eagle eyes but Balboa upon a peak in Darien.
Where he withdrew his handkerchief and saw
Poet confessed his sorrow over woman he loved ‘almost to madness’ in unpublished letter now up for auction
The radical young poet’s backhanded tribute to the older writer is a stern judgment on his lapsed political idealism
An excerpt from ‘Served Cold from the Refrigerator’, by Sutputra Radheye.
Romantic poet’s letters to Fanny Brawne, dated between 1819 and 1820, had been stolen from a Long Island estate
Quote of the Day by Edgar Allan Poe suggests tragic love stories leave a lasting impact. Poe believed the death of a beautiful…
Dawn touches the sky with her rosy fingers, and I realize that I forgot to put the bin out. I turn on the radio, and the news is…
