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| Title | : | Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne |
| Author | : | John Keats |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 132 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2009 by Penguin Books |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Nonfiction. Romance |
John Keats
Paperback | Pages: 132 pages Rating: 4.29 | 2567 Users | 235 Reviews
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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.Describe Books During Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
| 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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Ratings: 4.29 From 2567 Users | 235 ReviewsWrite-Up About Books Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
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 andVery 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
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
I picked this book after I saw the movie and I was absolutely stunned by the beauty, sincerity and poetry of these letters. They are intense and heartbreaking. I couldn't believe they were written 200 years ago...I loved poems as well, although I wish there were more.
I very nearly cried whilst reading this. Full review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAtxL...
Perfect and imperfect. Proof that love never dies. This is the most romantic love story I've ever read...and probably will ever read in my lifetime. Romeo and Juliet, Elizabeth and Darcy,Tristan and Isolde, Barbie and Ken...amateurs. "When Fanny was told of Keat's Death, the effect on her was terrible. The Twenty-year-old cut her hair short and spent three years in widows black, roaming the paths on the Heath where she and Keats had walked together." "Is there another life?...There must be, we
I feel like the poems and letters made a fairly visible and hard to watch/hard to look away from transition between thoughtful and romantic to frantic, paranoid, obsessive and overwhelming. Particularly the last two letters and two poems were almost begging fanny never to look or love anyone else and the very last poem seemed to me like he was saying he was going to haunt her from the grave. God this was so captivating. The poems are wonderful as always but the letters are the true gems, at the
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