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Keats's poetry with Andrew Motion

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John Keats in Hampstead. The poet and biographer Sir Andrew Motion, former Poet Laureate, strolls around the village of Hampstead with Henry. They discuss the short life and luscious poetry of John Keats, walking on the Heath, visiting Leigh Hunt’s house in the Vale of Health and finishing at Wentworth Place (now Keats House), where they meet its principal curator, Rob Shakespeare.

Penguin Classics editions of Keats:

Selected Poems

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33867/selected-poems--keats/9780140424478.html

https://apple.co/3IE3ZMC

Complete Poems

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/33699/the-complete-poems/9780140422108.html

https://apple.co/3H4pUMy

Selected Letters

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/177598/selected-letters/9780141192796.html

https://apple.co/3FUzvUx

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (introduced by Jane Campion)

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/60470/so-bright-and-delicate--love-letters-and-poems-of-john-keats-to-/9780141442471.html