Bright Star (2009)

Actors

• Jonathan Aris (actor)
• Sebastian Armesto (actor)
• Roger Ashton-Griffiths (actor)
• Riccardo Bacigalupo (actor)
• Samuel Barnett (actor)
• Thomas Brodie-Sangster (actor)
• Tony Fish (actor)
• Vincent Franklin (actor)
• Will Garthwaite (actor)
• Sam Gaukroger (actor)
• Alfred Harmsworth (actor)
• Guy Mannerings (actor)
• Gerard Monaco (actor)
• Lucas Motion (actor)
• Olly Alexander (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama
• Romance

Taglines:

First Love Burns Brightest
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Quotes:

John Keats: [about writing poetry] It ought to come like leaves to a tree, or it better not come at all.

Fanny Brawne: [the night before he leaves] You know I would do anything::John Keats: I have a conscience.

Charles Armitage Brown: I failed John Keats. I did not know til now how tightly he wound himself around my heart.

Margaret 'Toots' Brawne: [explaining to the bookseller why her sister Fanny wants to get John Keats' latest poem book] My sister has met the author and she wants to read it for herself to see if he's an idiot or not.

Fanny Brawne: I still don't know how to work out a poem.::John Keats: A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out, it is a experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept the mystery.::Fanny Brawne: I love mystery.

John Keats: I had such a dream last night. I was floating above the trees with my lips connected to those of a beautiful figure, for what seemed like an age. Flowery treetops sprung up beneath us and we rested on them with the lightness of a cloud.::Fanny Brawne: Who was the figure?::John Keats: I must have had my eyes closed because I can't remember.::Fanny Brawne: And yet you remember the treetops.::John Keats: Not so well as I remember the lips.::Fanny Brawne: Whose lips? Were they my lips?

[first lines]::[general chatter]::Mrs. Brawne: Hello, Joy.::Dilke Maid: Hello.::Mrs. Brawne: Is all well?::Dilke Maid: Very good, thank you.

[last lines]::Fanny Brawne: [last lines before credits, speaking Keat's poem Bright Star] Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art - / Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night / And watching, with eternal lids apart, / Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, / The moving waters at their priestlike task / Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, / Or gazing on the new soft-fallen masque / Of snow upon the mountains and the moors - / No - yet still stedfast, still unchangeable / Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, / To feel for ever its soft swell and fall, / Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, / Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, / And so live ever - or else swoon in death.

[last title cards]::Title card: Fanny Brawne walked the Heath for many years, often far into the night. She never forgot John Keats or removed his ring. / Keats died at twenty five, believing himself a failure. Today he is recognised as one of the greatest of the Romantic Poets.

[last lines]::John Keats: [voice over credits, from Ode to a Nightingale] Forlorn! the very word is like a bell / To toll me back from thee to my sole self! / Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well / As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf. / Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades / Past the near meadows, over the still stream, / Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep / In the next valley-glades: / Was it a vision, or a waking dream? / Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?

The End (2008)

Actors

• Austin Cooke (actor)
• Ashley Avis (actress)
• Danny Mendoza (producer)
• Danny Mendoza (writer)
• Danny Mendoza (director)
• Tony Feliu Jr. (editor)

Genres

Taglines:

The truth will set you free.

The Poetry Hall of Fame (1993)

Actors

• John Betjeman (actor)
• Victor Bevine (actor)
• LeVar Burton (actor)
• Robert Culp (actor)
• Jim Dale (actor)
• Henry Fonda (actor)
• Will Geer (actor)
• Jack Gwillim (actor)
• Fred Gwynne (actor)
• Roger Hammond (actor)
• Paul Hecht (actor)
• Alan Howard (actor)
• Neil Hunt (actor)
• Mel Johnson Jr. (actor)
• Stephen G. Arlen (actor)

Genres

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Matching books:

The Tatler, Volume 3

Keats: Poems Published in 1820

Poems 1817

Lamia

Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends

Endymion

Famous quotes by John Keats:

"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all"

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."

"Love is my religion - I could die for it."

"I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination"

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness"

"I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever."

"Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain / Clings cruelly to us."

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."

"A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it"

"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever."

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish."

"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."

"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."

"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."

"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."

"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."

"The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility."