Rolling Stone Menu April 30, 2021 11:47AM ET The Last Word: Marianne Faithfull on Fame’s Dark Side and the Evolution of ‘As Tears Go By’
The singer also discusses poetry, drugs, Mick Jagger, and the advice she lives by
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Marianne Faithfull has lived several lifetimes in her 74 years. She was only 17 when the pop song “As Tears Go By” turned her into a star overnight in 1964, and she was in her early twenties when her relationship with Mick Jagger made her a tabloid lightning rod. After that ended, she fell deep into drugs, living for a while on the streets, before making a stunning comeback in 1979 with
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John Keats' concept of 'negative capability' – or sitting in uncertainty – is needed now more than ever
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YahooJohn-keatsNegative-capabilityயாகூஜான்-கீட்ஸ்எதிர்மறை-திறன்Today’s culture warriors should read Keats’s poetry, and absorb a timeless truth
Two hundred years on from his death, the Romantic poet’s idea of ‘negative capability’ has much to tell the petty ideologues of 2021
The poet John Keats, painted in his final years by his friend Joseph Severn (detail)
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In this febrile climate, there is one Romantic poet to whom we should all turn. It’s not Shelley (too self-consciously prophetic), it’s not Wordsworth (too likely to tip into sentimentality), and it’s definitely not Blake (the past year has been crazy enough).
The poetry of John Keats, on the other hand, who died of tuberculosis 200 years ago this month at the age of 25, can act both as a comfort for those struggling in the pandemic and a corrective against the dogmas of “cancel culture”. Why? Well, as a starting point, we should look to a letter Keats sent to his brothers, George and Thomas, in 1817. “It struck me,” he wrote, “what quality went
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