Primrose Island: Keats and the Isle of Wight

Dr Jane Darcy delivers the Keats Foundation Annual Lecture. The Isle of Wight enchanted Keats. In April 1817 everything he saw there held endless promise – the sea, the ‘delightful wood-alleys,’ the ‘quick freshes’ and the primroses. Yet his relationship with the island and isolation was complex, and on this first visit loneliness overwhelmed him.

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