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Brian Rejack

Higher education teacher

Sep 16, 2026

21:17
Bri, do you want to say a little bit about that?
21:20
Yeah, so, you know, a lot of Keats's poetry emerges out of reading in sometimes very direct ways.
21:30
He writes lots of poems into books that he's reading, sometimes about those reading experiences, sometimes not directly.
21:40
Um, and so this is, um, I think probably the, the first example of that that we have.
21:47
This is written in, uh, towards the end of 1816.
21:50
It's right around that time when he's finished his medical training and he decides, I'm going full-time poetry.
22:00
And, uh...

30 MINS LATER

52:14
Yeah, I suppose to maybe pinpoint those final thoughts a little bit, I wonder what should people take from this discussion about Keats and their own reading of poetry, their own lives? If they want to explore further, where should they go? And if they just want to take some of his life as inspiration, what should they take?

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