Have you ever written a billet-doux? ; )The lippy, ill and coronary young man, Keats, is the pure example of a champion that gets jealous, loves tenderly in rich sentimentality, and allows his words to be in frequency with his heart. It is amazing how humans joggle the counter parts of loving som...
To celebrate midsummer, after teaching I took the tube to Hampstead to visit Keats House. The house was not pretty enough to make it into "Bright Star", but knowing the circumstances of Keats's life I expected a modest building, and I found my visit very moving. The rooms are decorated in a simpl...
This is the perfect companion book to the film "Bright Star", which dramatises the relationship of Romantic poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, his love and muse. In fact, this book includes an introduction by Jane Campion, the film's director; an introduction that serves as a brief account of the ...
Divided into two diverse parts between the love letters and the poems, this is Keats in love and inspired. It is also more poignantly a vision of Keats slowly fading and with the final letters he disappears from the world.Out of this devotion comes a portrait of Fanny Brawne, whose presence, rath...
IntroductionNote to the Third EditionAcknowledgementsTables of DatesFurther Reading--Imitation of Spenser--On Peace--'Fill for me a brimming bowl'--To Lord Byron--'As from the darkening gloom a silver dove'--'Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream'--To Chatterton--Written on the Day that Mr...