As she read through the poet's letters, Campion says, she "fell in love with the guy." From the letters, she moved on to Keats' poetry and was hooked.

Her interest in Keats's poetry reflects her interest in Keats—understandably. She's an 18-year-old in love, not a student in an English seminar.

Keats nursed her diligently but couldn’t save her. He was back at school when the news of her death reached him; on hearing it he crawled under a desk and refused to come out.

John Keats's Passionate, Lusty Letters Are the Key to His Poems Wikimedia Commons No publication on Keats could be more acceptable just now than a complete edition of his letters.

Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography, by Stanley Plumly, W.W. Norton, 392 pages, $27.95 When John Keats died in February 1821, just 25, his friends believed that it was the reviews that killed ...

Jane Campion's account of John Keats&#8217; </CQ> brief and tragic love affair with a neighbor girl of unusual mettle, "Bright Star" contains brilliant moments but bogs down too often to compel truly ...

Any prize for the most enigmatic character in English poetry would probably go to the truant knight in John Keats’s much-loved 1819 ballad La Belle Dame Sans Merci.

LONDON, April 9 (UPI) -- The romance between John Keats and Fanny Brawne, producing one of the best known lyric poems of the English Romantic period, will come to the big screen. "Bright Star ...

Jane Campion's latest film, on show at Cannes, portrays the passionate affair between the Romantic poet John Keats and his teenaged love Fanny Brawne but is not a biopic, the New Zealand-born ...