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  • Look at it this way: Beautiful poetry, to paraphrase John Keats, is a joy forever.

    Yes You Can--Buy My Book of Bad Poetry Con Chapman 2010

  • Those such as John Keats accuse Isaac Newton of unweaving the rainbow by explaining it.

    UUpdates - All updates 2010

  • (first issued in 1837 and still in print), the four short pieces omitted in 1832 once more found a place, and the lines on "John Keats," first published in _Letters and Journals_, and the two stanzas to Lady

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Phillipson’s students can go to a wiki he designed and highlight a phrase in a poem such as John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.”

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Blogs and Wikis transform college teaching 2005

  • It is a mistake to believe that one can form the empathy necessary to engage fully with the world's problems without developing what the poet John Keats called "negative capability," or the ability to step out of oneself that comes with the reading and study of literature.

    Brian Rosenberg: What Higher Education Can Learn From Steve Jobs Brian Rosenberg 2011

  • John Keats reputedly wrote his sonnet "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket" as part of a timed sonnet-writing competition with his friend Leigh Hunt which Keats apparently won.

    John Lundberg: Poems That Celebrate the Summer John Lundberg 2011

  • David Yaffe seems to recognize this distinction, but no sooner has he situated Mr. Dylan squarely in "the canon of singer-songwriters" than he holds him up as the equal of Ginsberg and likens him to John Keats, Elizabeth Bishop and William Blake.

    Poet, Prophet and Puzzle David Yezzi 2011

  • John Keats reputedly wrote his sonnet "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket" as part of a timed sonnet-writing competition with his friend Leigh Hunt which Keats apparently won.

    John Lundberg: Poems That Celebrate the Summer John Lundberg 2011

  • Daniel Defoe, John Keats, Robbie Burns and even Queen Victoria all wrote about the white-topped peaks in summer.

    Weatherwatch: Why have all the snow-capped peaks vanished? 2011

  • "Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold" wrote John Keats in 1816 – but a love letter the poet penned four years later has now fetched a record amount of the more earthly kind of gold.

    Keats love letter sells at auction for £96,000 2011

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