Keats-Shelley200: John Keats Sets Sail - a bicentenary reading of Keats and Shelley by Julian Sands

17 сент. 2020 г. John Keats - Sonnet: Happy is England! (06:54) - On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer (08:32) - Great Spirits Now on Earth Are Sojourning (10:43) - Endymion: A Poetic Romance. ’A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever’ (12:24) - Eve of St Agnes (Stanzas 29-36) (14:30) - La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad (19:28) - Ode to a Nightingale (23:00) - Ode on a Grecian Urn (25:17) - Bright Star (30:36) Lord Byron: - She Walks in Beauty (32:59) P. B. Shelley: - Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni (Stanza 5) (37:28) - Ozymandias (38:36) - Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, October 1818 (40:38) - The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre of Manchester (Stanzas 1-3, 5, 89-91) (42:27) - England in 1819 (45:00) - To a Skylark by P. B. Shelley (47:00) - Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (Stanzas 39, 49, 54-55) (49:18) On 17 September 1820 John Keats and Joseph Severn set sail from London towards Naples in Italy aboard the sailing brig the Maria Crowther. The journey to Naples proved to be a long and troubled one from the start, as Andrew Motion writes in his biography of Keats: “Their journey along the south coast of England was disrupted by a series of terrible storms and exasperating calms. Often their boat was driven backwards the way it had come. Occasionally the captain allowed his passengers ashore while he waited for a favourable wind.“ It took them more than a month to reach the bay of Naples and almost another month to arrive, finally, in Rome on 15 November 1820. As we approach the bicentenaries of the deaths of Keats and Shelley, who died in 1821 and 1822 respectively, the Keats-Shelley House will be posting special virtual events in Rome to commemorate key dates and to raise awareness of our Keats-Shelley200 campaign. We started the celebration with an intimate and intense reading from the Essential Poems of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley by actor Julian Sands, a long-time friend of the Keats-Shelley House, who joined us in Rome to commemorate the bicentenary of Keats’s voyage.