Monday, February 28, 2011

Things I once knew

Keats

In the early 90s, I did a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major study in English Literature. Reams of essays I wrote on Shakespeare and Marlowe, Keats, Shelley and Byron, Tennyson and Arnold. And then I moved onto other things, decided my major study should be history, and that was kind of that. But lately I have been remembering all the beautiful poetry that I read then and I am beginning to rediscover it. The wonderful series, "The Romantics" (hosted by Peter Ackroyd) has helped me to revisit these poems and, actually, to get a bit more out of them than I did twenty years ago! My favourite at the moment is Keats. Do you read poetry? Or is there something you once immersed yourself in and then forgot?

3 comments:

Bodecea said...

Changes from time to time - but I still like to read SPs poems.

Diana Kennedy said...

It really seems that there are times in our life when poetry plays a bigger role than in other. I used to be very fond of poetry in my youth, and like you, I am re-discovering it.

Feronia said...

@ Bodecea -

Yes, I always go back to SP. Have you read much TS Eliot? I have been reading him lately and in some ways he reminded me of SP.

@ Diana -

I really think I am getting more out of it now because I don't *have* to read it to write an essay!