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By Tamar Zhghenti on 11/28/2020

Keats: Physician to all men

Physician to all men If poetry has a healing power, then John Keats is twice a doctor – for he, one of the greatest poets of all time, was actually a physician, a licensed apothecary-surgeon and a general practitioner of medicine. Among romantic poets Keats was the only one who had scientific training. In years […]

By Will Sherwood on 11/03/2020

Oral Enchantment in Keats and Tolkien (Part III)

The Synaesthetic Link Synaesthesia is the condition where an individual’s experiences of the senses blur. Sounds are colourful, words have taste, smells have feelings. Poetic synaesthesia has been considered an ‘innovation of the eighteenth (or even nineteenth) century’ that is associated with a ‘specifically Romantic psychology’ (O’Malley, 1957, pp. 397 – 398). The Romantic poets […]

By Will Sherwood on 11/03/2020

Oral Enchantment in Keats and Tolkien (Part I)

‘Viewless Wings of Poesy’: Oral Enchantment in Keats and Tolkien John Keats (1795 – 1821) and J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973) are not the most likely of pairings when it comes to comparing writers. Keats was deeply concerned with the beauty and pain that life presented in poems such as ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and […]