The Letters of John Keats: Complete Revised Edition with a Portrait not Published in Previous Editions and Twenty-Four Contemporary Views of Places Visited by Keats
WHAT WOULD TOTO WATCH? (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Period romances can’t fall back on explicit set pieces or modern courtship rituals to make audiences fall for them. It takes chemistry of the first order and screenwriting that make the lovers’ passions palpable to all. “Bright Star,” based on the final years of Romantic poet John Keats, fails in both measures. That doesn’t mean it lacks [...] Related posts:...
Dictionary Quotes (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” John Keats quotes
The Curated Object (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
John Keats (1795-1821), autograph letter signed to Fanny Brawne, Kentish Town, 5 July 1820 tour: Love Letters For those in the City of Brotherly Love.... a romance, quite modern..... Love Letters, from Poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne October 9-December...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Following the opening earlier this month of Bright Star, Jane Campion's film about the love affair between John Keats and Fanny Brawne, Penguin has clearly decided to target young, love-sick girls, which inevitably means lots of flowers on the cover of this collection of letters and poems from Keats to his neighbour. Yet I'm not sure those girls will find what they're looking...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.”—John Keats, “ To Autumn ” (1820) ( Thanks to my friend and fellow blogger Linnea for bringing this lovely and apropos poem to my attention .) I took the accompanying photograph last fall while on a trip to Massachusetts. The photo shows the Charles River from the Cambridge...
Poetry & Popular Culture (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... laboratory and with his death. But there's more to the story than that. There's also the poetry of John Keats. As the resolute, newly sober Jekyll heads off to meet his fiance at the social event celebrating their impending marriage—and before he loses control and turns back into Hyde—he walks through a park where, hearing a bird singing, he stops to contemplate life and...
Boxwish (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... from last Friday, the period drama Bright Star which charts the ill-fated romance between poet, John Keats (played by Ben Whishaw) and his neighbour, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). And if this literary love story is more your pace, then head over to Keats House to see screen worn costumes from the film.
The Goat Rope (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
GIVE me women, wine, and snuff Untill I cry out "hold, enough!" You may do so sans objection Till the day of resurrection : For, bless my beard, they aye shall be My beloved Trinity.--John Keats, 1795-1821 Visit the Goat Rope at http://goatrope.blogspot.com.
Movie Talk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For director Jane Campion, the love affair at the heart of her ravishing movie Bright Star is “as powerful as Romeo and Juliet.” That’s quite a claim to make, but watching her account of the passionate but chaste, tragically short romance between romantic poet John Keats and his [...]
Conor's Commentary (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
To see Jane Campion's new film on the last years of the poet John Keats' s life, Bright Star . Based on Andrew Motion's biography, the film tells of his love for Fanny Brawne, his neighbour's daughter in Hampstead and how that affected his life before TB took him to Italy for a forlorn cure and his untimely death. Abbie Cornish carries the film as a hugely impressive Fanny, and there...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Jane Campion's marvellous ode to Keats is that rare thing – a biopic about a poet that does full justice to its subject Films about poets have a poor reputation, most of them – from Dennis Price as The Bad Lord Byron 60 years ago to Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath six years back – being dull and risible, though a couple of performances have been rather good, most notably Rip...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
THE LOVE affair between John Keats and Fanny Brawne was shortlived but burned intensely bright.
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A deft treatment of John Keats's love life delights Ryan Gilbey
[helix] (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
You have to watch this in honour of J.K.! It's a hoot.
Poems noticed (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
BRIGHT STAR by John Keats Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art - Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors - No---yet still stedfast,...
