A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
| John Bach, Actor (1946) |
| Peter Erskine, Musician (1954) |
| Lord Thomson Of Fleet, Publisher (1894) |
| Ken Follet, Author (1949) |
| Ken Follett, Author (1949) |
| Kenny G, Musician (1956) |
| David Hare, Playwright (1947) |
| Alfred Kazin, Critic (1915) |
| Kathleen Kennedy, Producer (1953) |
| John Maynard Keynes, Economist (1883) |
| Gamaliel Bailey, Journalist (1859) |
| Eleanor Farjeon, Writer (1965) |
| Orlando Gibbons, Composer (1625) |

