Moorgate, Enfield, Edmonton and Hampstead: The Cross-City Migrations of John Keats

Lisica, Flora (2024) Moorgate, Enfield, Edmonton and Hampstead: The Cross-City Migrations of John Keats. In: Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 255-262. ISBN 9781350242012

Abstract

Keats spent the majority of his life between central London and its environs. Born in Moorfield, he spent his school years between semi-rural Enfield and Edmonton, then moved to Southwark to pursue his medical studies, before settling in what was then suburban Hampstead. This chapter traces the ways in which Keats's migrations between the city centre and its surroundings shaped his poetry. Considering the context of London's geographical expansion in the early nineteenth century, which was reshaping the relationship between the urban and the rural, it reads Keats's poetry as a vehicle for transporting some of the nature which had been lost back into the city.

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Official URL:	https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultures-of-london-9...
Item Type:	Book Section
Disciplines:	Humanities > English
Depositing User:	Flora Lisica
Date Deposited:	29 May 2024 11:56
Last Modified:	29 May 2024 11:56
URI:	https://nul.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1309

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