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In this episode, I’m talking about Jane Campion’s 2009 film, “Bright Star.” It’s about the brief but beautiful love story between the poet John Keats and a young woman named Fanny Brawne. John Keats is considered one of the greatest poets who ever lived but he died young, before he and Fanny could create a life together. Their romance was marked by distance and the ever-present shadow of death but his passionate letters to her–which are featured throughout the film–reveal how deeply he was in love with Fanny and how much she meant to him. I talk about the relationship between Keats and Fanny, how the film shows the precarious life of a writer and explores the importance of poetry in our lives, and much more.
Full Show Notes:
- My episode on Jane Campion’s The Piano
- My episode on Jane Campion’s In the Cut
- Bright Star book
- Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
- Violet to Vita : The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921
- Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson
- Kate Zambreno interview with The Millions
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