Reading, Writing, Working, Playing

My regional JASNA group has an book club, and our January book was The Regency Years , by Robert Morrison. It was absolutely terrific--essen...

To Autumn By John Keats (1795-1821) Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with ...

Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets , by Jude Morgan, blew me away it was so good.  It's a bit of a ruse to say that it's a...

I started reading Austen as a young teenager and by the time I went to college had finished my first time through the six novels, with some...

Since I first learned about Jane Campion's film Bright Star ,the story of John Keats's doomed relationship with his sometime muse, F...

The poem that has always characterized the John Keats/Fanny Brawne romance in my mind is not Bright Star , the title of the movie to be rel...