Monday, October 31, 2022

Probably my favorite poet …

… Resurrecting John Keats | The Russell Kirk Center. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… We love Keats because, as Miller points out as she guides us through Keats’s poetry and life, he simultaneously embraced poetry as a rest from our restless lives while not removing the nitty-gritty reality of the muck and mud world we live in. Life is messy and complicated. Love is messy and complicated. Genius is messy and complicated. And Keats’s poetry and own life is messy and complicated. We find ourselves, our own hearts and souls, in its aspirations and disappointments, in the poetry Keats bequeathed to the world. 

The music of his verse has always enchanted me. 

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