The strangely encouraging life of John Keats

#johnkeats #poetry #literature A brief (9 minute) audio biography of John Keats written and narrated by John Webster with images of locations associated with the poet. Why 'strangely encouraging'?

Because Keats:

overcame childhood traumas, put those traumas into his creative journey, abandoned a potentially lucrative career to be true to his vocation, turned himself into a world-class poet in a three-year period, arrived at his achievement through determination and false starts as well as instinctive genius, and created a body of work that would eventually secure his place as a poet as great as any of his time.
More on Keats and his legacy in the video 'The First Fab Four' - details at
www.thefirstfabfour.co.uk

Видео The strangely encouraging life of John Keats канала John Webster