Category Archives: De Almeida, Hermione

Physician and Humanist: Medicine and the Poetry of John Keats

Hermione de Almeida discusses the connections between poetry and medicine in the life and work of English romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821). A physician by training, Keats found ideas and analogies in nineteenth-century science and medical philosophy that stimulated several … Continue reading

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The Art of Literary Biography, Part 2 of 7: Byron

Leslie Marchand and Hermione de Almeida discuss the life and poetry of Lord Byron (George Gordon). Aspects include his congenital clubfoot; revolutionary movements in Italy and Greece and Byron’s political identity as a radical aristocratic reformer with humanitarian instincts; and his satirical leanings … Continue reading

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