Badly paced and luridly shot, the series’ first episodes have been a let down.
- Professor of English Literature, Aberystwyth University
Slated by critics, Netflix’s Persuasion isn’t as bad as it’s been made out to be.
The doctor-turned-poet died 200 years ago.
Chichester Cathedral’s stone effigy famously influenced Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb. But a new discovery suggests it may have inspired the tale John Keats wrote as La Belle Dame Sans Merci too.
Keats’s Winchester walk was no idyllic stroll – he had espionage on his mind.
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