Keats Talk at Bourne Community College
This Thursday i’m giving at talk at Bourne Community College – to the senior english class – on Keats and the Eve of St Agnes poem.
Keats was a genius. In a very short life (he died of TB at the age of 25) he wrote poems which have changed the way civilised people think.
He wrote the St Agnes Eve poem when his was staying in Chichester, in January 1819.
He walked over to Stansted Park, and I think a visit to the Church there, was a big influence over the poem.
It must have been cold…
Ah Bitter Chill it was !
The owl for all his feathers was a-cold,
The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass….
