John Keats
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A reading list for this edition can be found in the episode description of Wherever you're listening. I hope you enjoy the program. Hello. In eighteen nineteen, John Keats wrote some of the most loved poems in English, among them Odes to a Nightingale and On Melancholy.
Boyed up by enthusiastic friends, he'd left his medical career for poetry roughly two years earlier. Though some published reviews called him an uncouth cockney who should have stuck to medicine. Two years later, Keats was dead from TB. Before his work found wider glory, and And some who knew him, including Shelley, believed his true killer
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