Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne by John Keats

Description: Bright Star by John Keats, Jane Campion The epic romance of one of the most celebrated poets in the English languageComing to theatres in September 2009 is the tragic love story of nineteenth- century poet John Keats and the love of his life, Fanny Brawne. Keats died at the young age of twenty-five, leaving behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and letters ever written, inspired by his deep love for Fanny. "Bright Star" is a collection of Keats' romantic poems and correspondence in the heat of his passion, and is a dazzling display of a talent cut cruelly short. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The epic romance of one of the most celebrated poets in the English language Coming to theatres in September 2009 is the tragic love story of nineteenth- century poet John Keats and the love of his life, Fanny Brawne. Keats died at the young age of twenty-five, leaving behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and letters ever written, inspired by his deep love for Fanny. Bright Star is a collection of Keats romantic poems and correspondence in the heat of his passion, and is a dazzling display of a talent cut cruelly short. Author Biography John Keats was born in October 1795, son of the manager of a livery stable in Moorfields. His father died in 1804 and his mother, of tuberculosis, in 1810. By then he had received a good education at John Clarkes Enfield private school. In 1811 he was apprenticed to a surgeon, completing his professional training at Guys Hospital in 1816. His decision to commit himself to poetry rather than a medical career was a courageous one, based more on a challenge to himself than any actual achievement. His genius was recognized and encouraged by early Mends like Charles Cowden Clarke and J. H. Reynolds, and in October 1816 he met Leigh Hunt, whose Examiner had already published Keatss first poem. Only seven months later Poems (1817) appeared. Despite the high hopes of the Hunt circle, it was a failure. By the time Endymion was published in 1818 Keatss name had been identified with Hunts Cockney School, and the Tory Blackwoods Magazine delivered a violent attack on Keats as a lower-class vulgarian, with no right to aspire to poetry.But for Keats fame lay not in contemporary literary politics but with posterity. Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth were his inspiration and challenge. The extraordinary speed with which Keats matured is evident from his letters. In 1818 he had worked on the powerful epic fragment Hyperion, and in 1819 he wrote The Eve of St Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, the major odes, Lamia, and the deeply exploratory Fall of Hyperion. Keats was already unwell when preparing the 1820 volume for the press; by the time it appeared in July he was desperately ill. He died in Rome in 1821. Keatss final volume did receive some contemporary critical recognition, but it was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that his place in English Romanticism began to be recognized, and not until this century that it became fully recognized. Excerpt from Book Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like natures patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earths human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-- No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillowd upon my fair loves ripening breast, To feel 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. La Belle Dame Sans Merci Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering; The sedge is witherd from the lake, And no birds sing. Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, So haggard and so woe-begone? The squirrels granary is full, And the harvests done. I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever dew; And on thy cheek a fading rose Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads Full beautiful, a faerys child; Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild. I set her on my pacing steed, And nothing else saw all day long; For sideways would she lean, and sing A faerys song. I made a garland for her head, And bracelets too, and fragrant zo≠ She lookd at me as she did love, And made sweet moan. She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew; And sure in language strange she said, I love thee true. She took me to her elfin grot, And there she gazd and sighed deep, And there I shut her wild sad eyes-- So kissd to sleep. And there we slumberd on the moss, And there I dreamd, ah woe betide, The latest dream I ever dreamd On the cold hill side. I saw pale kings, and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; Who cryd--"La belle Dame sans merci Hath thee in thrall!" I saw their starvd lips in the gloam With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke, and found me here On the cold hill side. And this is why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is witherd from the lake, And no birds sing. Details ISBN0143117742 Author Jane Campion Language English ISBN-10 0143117742 ISBN-13 9780143117742 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 821.7 Short Title BRIGHT STAR M/TV Illustrations Yes Residence US Birth 1795 Death 1821 Year 2009 Subtitle Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne Place of Publication New York, NY Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2009-09-16 NZ Release Date 2009-09-16 US Release Date 2009-09-16 UK Release Date 2009-09-16 Pages 144 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Publication Date 2009-09-16 Imprint Penguin USA Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:23059232;

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