Ep. 17 Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s sonnet for John Keats read and discussed by Dinah Roe
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In this mini Keats-Shelley Prize Podcast, Dr Dinah Roe reads and discusses two poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that quote John Keats' epitaph 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'. The first was also a sonnet ('John Keats'); the second a fragment included in a letter to the other Rossetti brother, William Michael. ----more----
Our brief chat touched on Dante Gabriel's aspiration to out-Cockney John Keats in the rhyming department. This turned our attention to Betty Askwith's Appendix (literary Appendix that is) in her biography of Keats which asked: did Keats speak with a Cockney accent?
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'John Keats' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
'Writ in Water' fragment by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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