Is this how John Keats would have sounded reading his great sonnet Bright Star?
Dr Ranjan Sen has a better idea than most. A scholar specialising in phonology and phonetics at the University of Sheffield, Ranjan researched how English was spoken in the early 19th century (not least ----more----by a London Cockney) for the cyber-resurrection of John Keats organised by Oxford's Institute of Digital Archaelogy in 2021.
The full conversation will be posted in the coming days. For now, listen to this trailer in which Ranjan reads Bright Star as he believes Keats would have. Enormous thanks to Ranjan.
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Ep. 10 Giovanni Keats: The Story of John Keats and Italy
Ep. 9 Winner of 2020‘s Young Romantics Poetry Prize: Senbazuru by Joyce Chen (read by Dinah Roe)
Ep. 8 Winner of 2020‘s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize: Indian Paradise Flycatcher by Pascale Petit (read by Will Kemp)
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Ep. 2 At the Grave of John Keats: Part 1 (recorded in Rome’s Cimitero Acattolico)
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