What does it mean to writ(e) in water? And even more, what does it mean to write 'writ in water' on stone? Or is that in stone? These are all questions raised by John Keats' epitaph, 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water'. Which is why the Keats-Shelley Podcast called Adam Smyth, Professor of English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford, and an expert in Material Texts: or the study of people writing with weird things on weird surfaces.----more----
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We began by asking Adam to describe what a 'material text' might be, and what it means to study them. As well as telling us about poems written in glass and invsible ink (lemon juice to you and me), he cast an eye over Keats' epitaph, and pondered the fine distinction between writing 'in water' and 'on water'.
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Ep. 30 Why should we read Shelley, Keats or the Romantics in 2023? Fiona Sampson Part 2
Ep. 29 Winner of 2022’s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize: ‘December Moth outside a care-home window’
Ep. 28 Fiona Sampson announces the Winners of 2022’s Keats-Shelley Prizes
Ep. 27 Fiona Sampson reads and discusses Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (Part 1)
Ep 26 Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty read by Fiona Sampson
Ep. 25. Erica Jong talks about her life, career and why she loves John Keats
Ep. 24. Shelley’s Adonais read by Mick Jagger (Sheats-Kelly remix)
Ep. 23 Winner of 2021’s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize: in the kelp forest by Katrina Naomi (read by Deryn Rees-Jones)
Ep. 22 Winner of 2021’s Young Romantics Poetry Prize: ‘A Craftsman‘s Tale‘ by Eustacia Feng (read by Will Kemp)
Ep. 21 How do you solve a problem like Maria Cotterell? The story of John Keats, the Maria Crowther and his Final Voyage
Ep. 20 Mark Wallinger: Why I Love John Keats - Art, Epitaphs and Magna Carta
Ep. 19 John Keats and Rome’s Protestant Cemetery. A conversation with Nicholas Stanley-Price
Ep. 18 How did John Keats influence Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites? A Conversation with Dinah Roe
Ep. 17 Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s sonnet for John Keats read and discussed by Dinah Roe
Ep. 16 Readings: This Living Hand and Where be ye going, you Devon maid by John Keats
Ep. 14 Erica Jong’s top writing tips for Young Romantics
Ep. 13 John Keats’ Bright Star read by heart with analysis
Ep. 12 Reading: John Keats‘ ‘In drear nighted December‘
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