... . Inspired by Andrew Motion's biography of the poet John Keats who died at the age of 26, it stars Ben Whishaw as John Keats and Australian Abbie Cornish as Fanny Brawne. Motion says that "Keats's story is amazingly charged: poverty, doomed love, ... here to visit the official movie web site or here to visit Keats web site where you can read his poems and letters, or participate in ...

tweetmeme_url = " tweetmeme_source = "tweetmeme"; To Autumn John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and ...

  The best thing about this was the pared-down ordinariness of the portrait. Keats has suffered more than most because of some hysterical, not to say excessive, admirers. So it was good to see him here as a pretty average guy ... some brilliantly nuanced acting from the three leads, the poetry could be sprinkled on top in a nicely subtle ancillary way, obviating any capital K Keats bullshit.

... genteel film on release 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 pain would be too great - My Love is selfish - I cannot breathe without you. Yours for ever John Keats Sweetest Fanny, You fear, sometimes, I do not love you so much as you wish? My dear Girl I love you ever ... is gone I shall be awake for you. - Remembrances to your Mother. Your affectionate J. Keats. Dreamy Sigh. Don't they just make you want to write? 150 poems. Countless letters. ...

Culture 24 article which mentions the Old Operating Theatre Museum. Bright Star - on the trail of John Keats | Culture24 Sadly, it gets it wrong as Keats died justb before the Old Operating Theatre was built. Ofcourse, as an Apothecary apprentice he may have visited the Herb Garret

... for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever or else swoon to death. Bright Star the film about Keats’ short lived affair with his neighbour Fanny Brawne is released today. Looking for inspiration for your wedding readings- you can also visit the house where he met her and wrote some of his most romantic ...

I saw Bright Star yesterday, a very romantic film about Romantic poet John Keats. Liberties may have been taken with the poet's love life, but the quiet, well shot movie is a beautiful period piece nonethless. Ben Wihshaw certainly looks the part of the 25 year old Romantic poet dying of consumption. There are some gorgeous shots of the English countryside. However the chief virtue of Bright ...

In the wake of global economic collapse, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats introduces a hedge against future catastrophe by creating a mirror economy designed to skyrocket as world markets plummet. The first holistic response to the great recession, this far-reaching financial innovation seeks to offset materialism with modern science, by exploiting the economic potential of antimatter. ...

... lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The 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 ...