

Fiona Stafford
Professor of English Language and Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford, contributing expert commentary on John Keats and his poetry.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 48min
John Keats
Meiko O’Halloran, Romantic literature lecturer; Nicholas Roe, Wardlaw Professor of English; Fiona Stafford, Oxford literature professor. They trace Keats’s quick shift from medicine to poetry. They explore his 1818 creative surge, the making of the great odes, his classical influences, harsh contemporary reviews and the role of illness and travel in his short life.


