“The Grave of Keats,” 1873 by Walter Crane. (Photo by Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Like a lot of people who get their understanding of the world from books, I fell in love twice when ...

If the poet John Keats—fresh, fainting, convulsed by illness for much of his short life—could speak to us from beyond the grave, what would he say? More to the point, how would he say it? Keats didn’t ...

AGAINST OBLIVION—Sheila Blrken-heod—Macmillan ($3). When the Nazis were driven from Rome three weeks ago, it is probable that few among the liberating forces realized that they had liberated, among ...