John Keats
Paperback | Pages: 132 pages Rating: 4.29 | 2567 Users | 235 Reviews
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| Original Title: | So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne |
| ISBN: | 0143117742 (ISBN13: 9780143117742) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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I have two luxuries to brood over...your Loveliness and the hour of my death Though John Keats (1795-1821) died when he was just twenty-five years old, he left behind some of the most exquisite and moving poetry ever written. He also left an incredibly beautiful and tender collection of love letters, inspired by his great love for Fanny Brawne. Although they knew each other for just a few short years and spent a great deal of that time due to Keats' worsening illness, which forced him to live abroad, Keats wrote again and again about Fanny--his very last poem is called simply "To Fanny"--and wrote love letters to her constantly. She, in turn, would wear the ring he had given her until her death. This remarkable volume contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion, and is a dazzling display of a talent cruelly cut short.Itemize About Books Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
| Title | : | Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne |
| Author | : | John Keats |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 132 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2009 by Penguin Books |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Nonfiction. Romance |
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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, rather than ghostly and ethereal, stands instead of looming as a kind of grounded substance and whose, so grounded, being contrasts strangely and almost unromantically with the more lifted imagination ofMy full review can be found on my blog: https://wheretheresinktherespaper.wor...
Of course, I've long known about Keats and the Romantic Poets but hadn't (until reading this slim volume) realised what an original mind he has. For me this is more evident in the letters than the poetry. Here is a marvellouse example:"We might spend a pleasant year at Berne or Zurich - if it should please Venus to hear my 'Beseech thee to hear us O Goddess.' And if she should hear, God forbid we should what people call, settle - turn into a pond, a stagnant Lethe - a vile crescent, row or
The movie is better than the book. Much better.Normally, it is the book is better than the movie and a friend commented during our book club's Christmas party last month that this line should not be uttered anymore. It is always the case (especially for us readers). However, in my mind, there are exceptions like Tolkien's LOTR and Mario Puzo's The Godfather. And this book joins the two.Well, in fairness, the book is not a novel but just a compilation of letters that English romantic poet John
Very romantic...it's insane to think that there actually were men who wrote poetry like this to women at one time or another. The first half of the book (The letters to Fanny) were both touching and beautiful. The second half which were the best of his poems was wonderful as well, however I had to re-read most of it and look up a lot of the words since it is written in old English. The movie was very well done as well and Jane Champion gives a little intro in this book which helps to put things
Let me have another opportunity of years before me and I will not die without being rememberd pleads John Keats in one of the thirty-seven surviving love letters he sent to his angel, Fanny Brawne. It was some months before his partying to Italy, where he was sent following his doctors advice as the last chance to survive a long, strenuous illness. He was supposed to benefit from the milder winter there. He would never return to England, dying in Rome at the premature age of twenty-five and
I'm going to review this before even reading it, because as a person who has had some interest in Keats for a while now, this isn't close to reflective of his relationship with Fanny. The letters comprise approximately a third of the book, which is fine; that's all we have. But the other two thirds are poems that are supposed to be written about Fanny. In most cases, this is blatantly not true. We do not have enough information to determine how much or little these poems were influenced by
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