Lucasta Miller – Keats

A fresh interpretation of the great Romantic poet:
this short biography separates the man from the
myth.

Critic and biographer Lucasta Miller excavates the stories behind Keats’s best-known poems to resurrect the real man: a lower-middle-class outsider from a dysfunctional family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature. The Keats who emerges is not the ethereal figure of his posthumous myth, but a complex individual – a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression; a human being who delighted in the sensation of the moment. 

Chaired by Neil Astley.

Booking Information

• Priority Booking for Festival Friends opens at 08.00 on Thursday 2nd of March. Tickets go on general sale from Saturday 4th March.
• Please note that a handling charge of 50p per ticket applies to bookings made in person or over the phone. No handling charges apply to online bookings.
• Hearing loops are available.  Carers qualify for free ‘essential companion’ tickets. Wheelchair spaces are limited. In all cases, please call the Box Office on 01434 652477 to book (booking fees will not apply).