John Keats (1795-1821)
Poison Wine,
John Keats and the
Botanic Pharmacy.
Keats-Shelley Review 16: 2002
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A detailed analysis of the importance to Keats's best known poetry of the striking imagery he saw in the medicinal use of nominally poisonous plants. |
| Poison Wine - Keats Shelley Review, 16 (2002) 31-55 |
The Plants
William Curtis, Flora Londinensis, 1777-1798. William Woodville. Medical Botany, 1790.
The <Wiki> People
Robert John Thornton, New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus ... (1797-1807) & Wellcome Collection
Nice Ink, Keats
The Romanticism blog, The Wordsworth Trust, January 2019
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The student Keats doodled in his anatomy lecture notes. What was going through his mind? In this post for The Romanticism blog I start following a some clues.
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The Plant Lore & Garden Craft of Shakespeare,
Henry N. Ellacombe 1869 |
For a discussion on the links between John Keats and the botanist William Curtis mentioned in this article see 'John Keats & the Botanic Pharmacy, Keats-Shelley Review, No. 16 p.32.
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Nothing but Flowers
The Lancet, 2011
A short co-authored essay in the The Lancet's 'Perspectives' series
on the content and context of Keats's medical education. (2011).
The Lancet, Volume 378, Issue 9802, Pages 1541 - 1542, 29 October 2011
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61543-2
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'(in) the various Keats's works - the infusions and extracts of nightshade, hemlock, bittersweet, wolfsbane, ... not only were "included in the 1815 edition of the London Pharmacopoeia that Keats would have been examined on during his licensing" as Gareth Evans has engagingly discussed' 'London's immortal druggists', Thomas H. Schmid, from Romanticism and the City Larry H. Peer (Editor), Palgrave Macmillan 2011. 'Gareth Evans’s ‘Poison Wine: John Keats and the Botanic Pharmacy’ discusses botanical literature and focuses in particular on allusions to hemlock and blue monkshood in Keats’s poetry.' The Nineteenth Century: The Romantic Period, The English Association DOI: 10.1093/ywes/mah012 'a detailed discussion of Keats's probable knowledge of medical botany', Keats and Romantic Celticism Christine Gallant, Springer, 1 Jun 2005 Cited: Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, Stanley PlumlyW. W. Norton & Company, 2009 |
