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Who better to write the world’s most memorable love letters than the world’s most famous writers? This week in history’s most passionately-penned correspondence, we turn to the most tragic of the romantic poets, John Keats (1795-1821), writing to the lov

John Keats once referred to the sounds of chirping as “as though of hemlock I had drunk”, but researchers at the University of Surrey are probing a more scientific route. They have begun a three-year research project that will look into the impact of bir

THE Isle of Wight's literary heroes will take centre stage at this year's Isle of Arts festival. Alongside events celebrating the work of frequent Island visitor Charles Dickens and other literary greats, such as John Keats, Edmund Peel, John Sterling an

British romantic novelist Jane Austen died penniless on July 18, 1817, at the age of 41. Four of her six novels were already in print, but her obscurity was so deep that it was not until December that Austen was identified as the author. In life, fortune

Speaking of the walking dead, I began thinking about this piece in the long shadow of Simon Reynolds’ Retromania, a meticulous account of how the recent past has perpetually reanimated itself into present popular culture. Reynolds argues that the hauntin