John Keats
http://www.john-keats.com
Thilo's site has lots of information, including commentary on various
poems and a lengthy biography.
It also has a selection of letters and a Forum page where you can meet
and chat with other Keats enthusiasts. There is a shop which
lists Keats-related books.
Atlantic
Unbound: Soundings: To Autumn
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/soundings/keats.htm
Four writers recite one of Keats's most famous
odes. There is an introductory essay as well.
John
Keats and the Modern World
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~mn3ims/index%202.htm
This site explores Keats's relevance to modern life,
as well as the meaning of several works.
Bartleby's
Poetical Works of John Keats
http://www.bartleby.com/126/index.html
Another place to read Keats's poetry, complete with notes and an
introduction.
Temple
of Many Gods: John Keats
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/1805/jkeats.html
An interesting site with some fun facts about Keats.
John
Keats:
An exhibit at the British Library
http://portico.bl.uk/exhibitions/keats/overview.html
An internet site for the 1996 Keats exhibit at the British Library.
Further Reading: Some of my favorite websites / articles:
Some
quotes
from my favorite film, 'Out of the Past'.
And SilentGents.com
has lots of pictures of the incomparable Buster Keaton.
Andrew
Bird performs 'A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left'
A link to various live performances of a great song. Modern
poetry is almost uniformly lousy, but luckily we have wonderful
songwriters as compensation.
Jeff
Buckley reads Edgar Allan Poe's Ulalume
Poe's poetry is always interesting, and Buckley's voice is perfect for
reading aloud - what a treat!
Arts & Letters Daily
always has interesting links to follow.
Watch The Doctor
fight off challenges from Stoner, Hayden, Pedrosa, et al at www.motogp.com, the official site of
MotoGP.
Here's a shout-out to the best restaurant in the world - McCrady's in Charleston.
Visit Space.com if you,
too, like to occasionally wander outside with a telescope and curse the
light pollution which is the bane of modern life.
One of the joys of living in the DC area is the number of
smaller / quirky museums just waiting for a visit - try the Folger Shakespeare Library or The Walters or The Poe Museum or Geppi's. Geppi's Comics
has a special place in my heart since they used to sponsor Doctor Who
on MPT many years ago. If you venture a couple of hours north,
you can visit the incredible Barnes
Foundation. And the Brandywine Valley is nearby, too - The Book Barn and Brandywine River Museum
are
waiting.
Oh, to be in
England!
Poetry and Self-Pity
This essay is by Theodore Dalrymple, from the winter 1998 City
Journal. Dalrymple is the pen name of Dr Anthony Daniels; his
most famous work is Life at the
Bottom. You may also enjoy What's
Wrong
with Twinkling Buttocks?, his summer 2003 article. In case
you're wondering, the title is taken from Lawrence's oh-so-horrible Lady
Chatterley's Lover.
Boston
Comment
Joan Houlihan has a series of articles at WebDelSol which explore the
state of contemporary poetry. Yes, she has lots of fun at the
expense of bad poets. But she loves poetry and makes cogent
points about its sad decline.
Can
Poetry Matter?
This is Dana Gioia's influential and controversial 1991 article for
The Atlantic Monthly. I'm not quite sure why it's considered
controversial myself, but that's the general consensus.