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Rare Keats portrait to go on auction block
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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A U.S. auction house said it has found a rare portrait of British poet John Keats and will sell it off in London this summer. Bonhams said the portrait is rare because it appears dated to the final years of Keats' life. He died at age 25 in 1821 and
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John Keats was an opium addict, claims a new biography of the poet
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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Ode to a Nightingale arose from opium reveries, claims new biography. Photograph: Time Life Pictures/Getty Images John Keats , the poet of "beauty", a devotee of aesthetic isolation who swooned at the thought of his so-called "bright star" Fanny
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John Farr: For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance
London :: CA :: USA | over 2 years ago
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Sometimes I feel the very word "romance" is becoming quaint, like "soap flakes". Romance used to sound exciting; it was both the build-up and the pay-off to another out-of-date expression: "making love"...In this year's much-hyped comedy "No Strings
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Keats love letter set for auction
London :: United Kingdom | over 2 years ago
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John Keats letter to Fanny Brawne set for auction Letter written to neighbour Fanny Brawne as John Keats lay dying of tuberculosis could fetch up to £120,000 A portrait of the poet John Keats Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images A poignant letter
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Bright Star
Rome :: Italy | over 3 years ago
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Making her first feature outing since the fascinating and underrated In the Cut , Campion provides a masterclass in passion on screen...The really smart thing is that Campion has made a film about Brawne, not Keats. The sonnet that gives the film its
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New on DVD: Michael Jackson's 'This Is It'
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' Also being released: 'Bright Star,' 'Pontypool,' 'Surrogates,' 'Whip It' and more. Michael Jackson's This Is It Sony, $28.96; Blu-ray, $39.95 Part performance film, part behind-the-scenes document, part memorial for a
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Bright Star
Melbourne :: Australia | over 3 years ago
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It is a period piece of vividness and immediacy that has a sense not of a slavishly re-enacted 19th-century past, but of a tactile here and now. Lyrical, melancholy and playful, it's about inspiration and romantic love, but it is also a graceful
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A relationship of mist and mellow fruitfulness
Sydney :: Australia | over 3 years ago
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Aware that she is being patronised over her obsession with fashion, she reminds him that her dressmaking skills earn money, which is more than he can say for his poems. These exchanges give Jane Campion's Bright Star an unexpectedly witty start. I
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Q&A: Bright Star's Abbie Cornish
Sydney :: Australia | over 3 years ago
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This is a busy time for Abbie Cornish. Between traveling and doing physical training for her upcoming Zack Snyder film—if you’ve seen 300 you know how grueling that can be—she also has the Oscar buzz around Bright Star to fret about.
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Fashion takes place in artists' ateliers
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 3 years ago
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There's a moment in Jane Campion's "Bright Star" when seamstress Fanny Brawne sternly declares to John Keats and friends: "My stitching has more merits and admirers than all your scribblings put together...Is it a fist pump for the value of fashion
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