John Keats

Keats Community Library in Hampstead is a beautiful period building in the grounds of Keats House, the house and museum associated with the poet John Keats. A library since the early 1900s as the Heath Library, it was closed in early 2012 as part of Camden Council’s budget cuts and taken over by an independent [...]

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For the next two weeks I’ll be travelling in and reporting from the UK, including a spell in Edinburgh for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. For now, here’s a field report from Hampstead, onetime dwelling place of John Keats and John Constable, and intellectual Mecca of north London. Close by where I am now is [...]

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From the Houghton Library Blog: An exciting array of materials have recently been digitized at Houghton. They include manuscript material from Joanna Baillie, George Eliot, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Percy Shelley, Robert Southey, Alfred Tennyson, Hester Thrale and George Washington. A 15th century breviary and Belgian incunable, multiple musical scores, cartoons, broadsides and more may also be [...]