Undercover Bard 
Not only did Mike include four anagrams of Keats, he gave us JOHNKEATS and ODE to help us with the covert theme, though I almost missed it even with those clues.
Succumbed to being grilled SANG
Short head lines? EEG [not headlines;
short = abbreviation;
lines = graphed by the machine]
The Phantom of the Opera ERIK [Isn