Hello and welcome to Frank Skinner's poetry podcast.

Now I've spent the last few episodes investigating poet laureates.

Anyway, I've got that out my system now.

And this week, I thought I'd talk about white for it, John Keats.

Yes, I know. It's a biggie.

And slightly anxiety-making in that respect.

Also, I'm doing an old on-aggression earn, which is a greatest hit of the romantic poet, John Keats.

A bit like if I was doing an Elvis Presley podcast and this week, it's suspicious minds.

You know, the big questions. Why does it have that fade and return towards the end?

We'll never know. Was he cheating?

Yeah. So, Keats.

Now, Keats is sort of a neighbour of mine in that Keats house, a building in Hampstead, North London, where the poet lived,

is about five minutes walk from where I am now sitting in my bedroom, hunched over a hot laptop.

And it's worth a visit. It's got his complete Shakespeare.

I love the idea that Keats' complete Shakespeare is there.

I just like the books of the famous I get very excited about, because you have an intimate relationship with a book.

And I know he loved Shakespeare because of, well, it's a poem about King Leo, which establishes that.

Also, his paradise lost is there.

And the Shakespeare is closed, so you can't see Keats' marginalia, which is annoying.

That being things that one writes in the margin, in case you're getting confused.

But his paradise lost is open, and you can see some underlinings, which I find very exciting.

I'm a great fan of marginalia and underlinings in all their manifestations.

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