Tag: keats
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Teignmouth Harbour
More pictures from Teignmouth, 23 March 2010. Looking from New Quay across to the Fish Quay, with Shaldon Bridge and the sheds of Teignmouth Docks visible in the background. New Quay from Back Beach. The quay was constructed in 1820 by George Templer to facilitate the shipping of Dartmoor granite from Haytor. The building under…
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The salting sun
Anybody searching Teignmouth for the ghost of John Keats is following a well-trodden path. Charles Causley wrote a poem inspired by his visit in the 1950s: Keats at Teignmouth Spring, 1818 By the wild sea-wall I wandered Blinded by the salting sun, While the sulky Channel thundered Like an old Trafalgar gun. And I watched…
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Hazel
– The Hedges by this time are beginning to leaf – John Keats: Letter to B. R. Haydon – 8 April 1818