Up launches Cannes film festival May 14, 2009
Bright Star - a period drama about poet John Keats - and Fish Tank, a domestic drama starring Michael Fassbender, complete the British contingent in the main competition. Fassbender, who won plaudits for his portrayal of hunger striker Bobby Sands in Hunger last year, also has a role in Tarantino's film. (BBC News -- Europe)
The line-up in pictures May 14, 2009
Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish star as the English poet John Keats and his lover Fanny Brawne. This year's event will open with Up, the latest feature from animation powerhouse Pixar. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Cannes lifts off with ‘Up' May 14, 2009
Jane Campion, who won the Palme d'Or with The Piano in 1993, brings Bright Star based on the romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Other highlights include Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock about the rock festival and Lou Ye's Spring Fever made in defiance of a five-year ban from film making imposed by China for his previous movie Summer Palace, also in Cannes. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
THEY'RE BACK: Cannes' favorite sons and daughters May 12, 2009
This time she returns to the 1800s with Bright Star, a romance about British poet John Keats and his muse, a girl next door who inspired him until his untimely death at 25. Meanwhile, Almodovar leads a strong Spanish presence with Broken Embraces, a comedic neo-noir starring his own muse, Penelope Cruz, in the role of a fading femme-fatale actress. (USA Today -- Life)
Campion film to debut at Cannes May 11, 2009
Cornish plays Fanny Brawne, the love interest of the poet John Keats (played by Ben Whishaw) while the New Zealand actress Kerry Fox - who starred as the writer Janet Frame in Campion's An Angel At My Table - plays Fanny's mother. Also in contention for a gong at Cannes is the debut feature film from writer and director Warwick Thornton. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
GRSF sonnet contest returns May 7, 2009
For those looking for inspiration, Armstrong suggests reading sonnets by poets such as John Keats, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, David Wojahn, Molly Peacock, Ron Wallace, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and, of course, Shakespeare. It helps give you the rhythm, Armstrong said. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Cannes Fest names 20 films in competition Apr 28, 2009
Jane Campion, the New Zealand director whose The Piano took the Palme dOr in 1993, is back with her new film Bright Star, about 19th century English poet John Keats love affair with his muse Fanny Brawne. Denmarks Lars von Trier, who won a Palme dOr for Dancer in the Dark in 2000, will try for another top prize with Antichrist, a horror movie that depicts Satan, rather than God, as the worlds creator. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Art house stars shine at this year's Cannes fest Apr 28, 2009
New Zealand's Campion, who became the first woman to win the Palme d'or in 1993 with The Piano, brings her new film Bright Star, based on the three-year romance between early-19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne. It stars Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Home-grown cinema forges ahead Mar 22, 2009
Three notable directors are returning with highly touted Australian films (or co-productions) - Jane Campion with Bright Star, about the romance between the poet John Keats and his mistress Fanny Brawne, Bruce Beresford with , based on the bestselling memoir by the Chinese dancer Li Cunxin, and Scott Hicks with The Boys Are Back In Town, a drama with Clive Owen as a single father. There are also high hopes for Robert Connolly's political thriller Balibo, about the killing of five newsmen in East... (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Lust in the dust jackets Feb 14, 2009
John Keats is untouchable on yearning. Sitting under the plum tree in his friend's Hampstead garden in the immaculate early summer days of May 1819, charmed that the violets were not yet withered and newly smitten with his lively 17-year-old neighbour, Fanny Brawne, the 24-year-old pretty much said all that needs to be said on the subject of yearning. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Local writers win state awards Mar 28, 2008
Griffith said that poet John Keats was one of his most influential writers to read when he was about the age of the students who received awards. He quoted lines from Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn.". (Eufaula Tribune, AL)
Brand new discoveries in an ancient literary tradition Mar 16, 2008
That in itself awakens wonder and what John Keats, in a poem about reading Homer, called "wild surmise.". The world is more magical than we like to admit. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Whither Shakespeare? He's backeth, baby! Mar 6, 2008
John Keats: "Poets, nightingales, people who like my poems, perhaps a doctor to cure me once and for all of this debilitating sickness.". Martin Luther: "I'd also like to meet faithful 'Lutherans' (I TOLD THEM NOT TO NAME THE CHURCH AFTER ME!) and other Christians.". (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Extract 1: Imagined valour Feb 18, 2008
"'There is an electric fire in human nature,' John Keats said, that continually results in the birth of heroism," Brown told viewers. "Last night and today and through the long days that will follow, a lot of ordinary people will make those words come true many times.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Queens reign in age of celebrity Jan 26, 2008
Pathe and the BBC are also working on a movie about Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands War; "Emma and Nelson," about the notorious affair between Lady Hamilton and Blighty's national hero Lord Nelson; Jane Campion's "Bright Star" about the romance between Fanny Brawne and the poet John Keats; and a fresh take on Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book.". Like "Pride and Prejudice," "Jungle Book" is a pop culture brand that has transcended its literary origins, more familiar to modern auds from previous... (Variety)
Garden Poetry and Quotes Jan 24, 2008
" -John Keats more and Copyright January 9 2008 All Rights Reserved Here's the follow-up discussion on this article: 1. Jan 23, 2008 5:44 PM There are so many different wonderful gardening quotes to use when decorating the garden. I have included many of my favorites, I hope you find yours listed. If not, feel free to add it here. For inst ... -- posted by Cottage_Garden For a complete listing of article comments, questions, and other discussions related to Barbara M. Martin's topic, please... (Suite101.com)
Francis Agboada (Togbui Sri III) Floors His Enemies Jan 23, 2008
His ambition, according to The Chase theory, was quite appealing if not outright ravishing until the Knight Errant succeeded in conquering his Dainty Catch, his Dream Princess, only to anticlimactically realize, in the now-clichd language of the celebrated Bard-of-Avon (or was it Mr. John Keats. that, after all, All that glitters is no gold at all, but a sheer figment of the sophomorically flighty imagination. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
A Reader Writes: Elvis was no King’ to me Jan 8, 2008
Countless times, I have listened with excruciating pain as he slowly slid up to a sought-after tone, never quite reaching it and leaving me with somewhat the same unfulfilled emotion I feel when I remember John Keats memorable poem about two lovers who are imprinted on a vase, poised to kiss, but doomed never to achieve satisfaction. And then, of course, there was the arrogant half-sneer, the come hither look through half-opened bedroom eyes. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Homer's The Iliad & The Odyssey Dec 21, 2007
There's the painstaking Aristarchus, the conflicted St Jerome, the ecstatic John Keats and the speculative Samuel Butler, who wholeheartedly believed that The Odyssey was the work of a young unmarried Sicilian woman and not a blind and wandering male bard. The story of Caliph al-Ma'mun, who, after an encounter with Aristotle in a dream, had the entire corpus of Ancient Greek writing translated into Arabic, ensuring its survival, serves as a timely parable for our times. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bio and Work Nov 20, 2007
Life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of England's finest poets, a contemporary of John Keats, and husband of Frankenstein's creator, Mary Godwin Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley was born into a wealthy family, in Field Place, near Horsham in Sussex on August 4, 1792, three years older than , another one of finest English Romantic poets. (Suite101.com)
Romance of depression Nov 18, 2007
Van Gogh, Abraham Lincoln, Virginia Woolf, Eugene O'Neil, Beethoven, Leo Tolstoy, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Isaac Newton, Ernest Hemingway, Michelangelo, Charles Dickens, Tennessee Williams, Guru Dutt - all suffered from clinical depression, bipolar depression, paranoia or suicidal depressions. A few of them, such as Van Gogh and Virginia Woolf, ultimately lost the battle to inner turmoil and took their own lives. (India Times, India)
Abbie Cornish found a character in her corset Nov 16, 2007
She will next star opposite British actor Ben Whishaw in Bright Star, a 19th-century biopic about the poet John Keats, written and directed by Jane Campion. C 00004000 ornish hopes that shoot will be as rewarding as The Golden Age, where she appreciated the breadth of her co-stars' talents. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Donation tree available at city library Nov 13, 2007
Books available on the donation tree include: "The Art and Craft of Ceramics: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration" by Maria Frigola; "Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game" by George Vecsey; "Basic Writings or Nietzsche" by Friedrich Nietzsche; "Bead Love: Simple Jewelry with Big Beautiful Beads" by Terry Taylor; "Collected Poems" by W.H. Auden; "The Complete Poems of John Keats" by John Keats; "High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta" by Gerald Helferich; "Islam: A Short... (Eufaula Tribune, AL)
Annals of astronomy: The ancient search for life out there Nov 13, 2007
The mood was captured in poetry by John Keats. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies. (International Herald Tribune)
Power to reign supreme Nov 11, 2007
From Last Battle Dreamer she will go to work with acclaimed director Jane Campion on Bright Star, a drama centred on the life of English poet John Keats, to be played by English actor Ben Whishaw. "I'm excited about working with Jane Campion. It's going to be a really beautiful film about Keats and his love life," she says. (Courier Mail)
John Keats, Life and Poems Nov 1, 2007
Brief biography of the life and works of English poet John Keats, one of the world's best Romantic poets known for odes, including 'Ode to a Nightingale ... John Keats was one of the finest poets of the Romantic school of writing. (Suite101.com)
Ghost stories: Dead but not gone Oct 28, 2007
John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale. Bonnie Nundahl of Westby, Wis. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Keats Ode to Autumn Oct 8, 2007
John Keats celebrates the special qualities of beauty and melancholy of the fall season. The poem consists of three stanzas, each with eleven rimed lines. (Suite101.com)
Cinema beauty hands out reel deals Aug 26, 2007
Cornish, whose next film is a period production based on poet John Keats, hosed down rumours she's set to be the next "Bond" girl. "It's not true, I don't know where that came from or why," she said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water..." Aug 9, 2007
The inability of water to act as a memorial was a well known poetical trope before the poet John Keats chose as his epitaph the quotation that serves as a headline here; its ephemerality was noted by Heraclitus in the fifth century BC. But 'the memory of water' is a phrase now firmly lodged in the public consciousness it even supplied the title for a recent play in London's West End. Scientists, though, tend to side with the poets in rejecting any notion that water can hold lasting impressions. (Nature News Service)
The gullible age Aug 5, 2007
But this is one area where Dawkins would have more in common with the Romantic poet John Keats s Beauty is truth, truth beauty , though they might have to argue a bit about the definitions. A man who holds no truck with established religion is unsurpris-ingly unlikely to have much good to say about Scientology, which purports to use scientific tools such as its controversial E-meter. (Times Online)
Q&A: curriculum reform Jul 12, 2007
The issue explained: Secondary school curriculum reform. Donald MacLeod looks at what 11 to 14-year-old pupils can expect to learn under the latest reforms to the secondary school curriculum. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
In a world at war, an artist struggles with memory, desire Jun 17, 2007
It struck me the other day that when John Keats said "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" and Mark Twain said "Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds," both writers were putting art in its place or, rather, in very different places: on a pedestal to be worshipped and in the pillory for target practice. In "The Last Summer of the World," Emily Mitchell's absorbing first novel, art finds itself in the firing line during the First World War when Edward Steichen, the renowned American painter and... (Boston Globe)
Concert showcases student works Jun 9, 2007
The 18-year-old will play the recorder, trumpet and sing a capella during a performance of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," his original piece based on a John Keats poem. The English translation is "The Woman without Kindness.". (Albany Times Union)
TB-free, I remember the trials and stigma Jun 6, 2007
Although I have been TB-free since college, I have maintained a sense of fraternity with its victims, especially those who suffered when it was commonly called "the consumption." I have noted how TB has not played favorites, striking the famous, among them some of my muses: the writer George Orwell, the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet John Keats and the pianist Fr;d;ric Chopin, as well as my father and me. Sponsored Links. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Dying woman exposes a terrible truth that changes world May 28, 2007
A decade later, "Silent Spring" would not be so poetic, though Carson began it with a verse from poet John Keats, "The sedge is wither'd from the lake / and no birds sing.". Keep in mind that America in the 1950s and early '60s was no hotbed of social revolution. (Anchorage Daily News)
Campion laments lack of female directors May 22, 2007
Campion's next picture is the story of poet John Keats' romance with his young neighbor Fanny Brawne, a love story that was cut short when he died at age 25. Campion plans to tell the story from Brawne's point of view. (FOX 11, AZ)
Drug-resistant TB raises pandemic fear May 4, 2007
From the 17th century to the 20th, it was a major killer in the United States and Europe, taking the lives of notable people such as the poet John Keats, the composer Frederic Chopin, the writer Stephen Crane and the actress Vivien Leigh. A virulent strain of tuberculosis resistant to most available drugs is surfacing around the globe, raising fears of a pandemic that could devastate efforts to contain TB and prove deadly to people with immune-deficiency diseases such as HIV-AIDS.. (Houston Chronicle)
Cool @ Night: Envy on the Coast May 3, 2007
"When I met Jer and Sal, they were huge pop-punk fans. But when I came back from college, Sal was listening to Queen, and Jer was into jam-bands." As for Hunter, he's a poetry fan: The band's original name, Writ in Water, was lifted from the grave of John Keats. Envy's EP, released last year, ranged from catchy emo-pop ("Temper Temper") to rock opera ("You Won't Hear This"). (Newsday -- Entertainment)
* Air batons are at the ready Apr 27, 2007
Mendelssohn's overture Fingal's Cave (also called "The Hebrides") evokes wild nature off Western Scotland, and in particular the basalt cave on Staffa Island that was a popular place to visit at the time (the English poet John Keats was there in 1818). Schubert's two-movement Unfinished Symphony, by contrast, compresses Romantic melancholia and longing more effectively, perhaps, than anyone else's music has ever done. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Fred Thompson should run for prez Apr 20, 2007
Thompson thinks he can afford to wait until he again hears "the call." In being coy and demonstrating patience, he is following the advice of poet John Keats, who wrote. "Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coyTo those who woo her with too slavish knees,But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy,And dotes the more upon a heart at ease...Make your best bow to her and bid adieu,Then, if she likes it, she will follow you.". (The Trentonian, NJ)
A man for all ages Apr 14, 2007
Thanks to the enthusiasm of poets, critics and translators such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and John Keats in England, Goethe and the Schlegel brothers in Germany, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas in France, during the 19th-century era of Romanticism, the grammar-school boy from the edge of the forest of Arden became the supreme deity not just of poetry and drama, but of high culture itself. From the initial reception of Venus and Adonis, his first published work, through the... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Ode on a Grecian Urn Apr 12, 2007
Explanation for Students. It is one of the most widely read poems amongst Literature students and scholars alike. (Suite101.com)
Poetry in motion as bright star shines in romance Apr 11, 2007
Cornish has scored the role of Fanny Brawne, the fiancee of the poet John Keats, in Bright Star, the latest of a spate of bodice-ripping literary biopics and the new film from the Australian director Jane Campion. The script, which Campion also wrote, is the story of the three-year romance between the 19th-century poet and Brawne, his next-door neighbour, whom Keats once labelled a minx. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hollywood falls in love with Keats Apr 8, 2007
John Keats fell in love with Fanny Brawne when he saw her walking in her garden and was inspired to produce some of the most beautiful verse and love letters ever written. By the age of 25 he was dead, the world robbed of his genius by tuberculosis. (Guardian Unlimited)
Whishaw to shine as Keats Apr 5, 2007
LONDON Ben Whishaw, one of Britain's rising stars, is in final negotiations to star as the English poet John Keats in period pic "Bright Star" for Pathe. Helmer Jane Campion has written the script for "Bight Star," the story of the ill-fated romance between Keats and Fanny Brawne, who will be played by Abbie Cornish. (Variety)
Journey: Burger flipper to academic Apr 3, 2007
Often overlooked because he forged historical documents, Chatterton actually influenced John Keats and other Romantic poets, Ramsey has found. Her professor, Suzanne Stein, says it's been a joy teaching Ramsey, who is now her research assistant for a project on Shakespeare's "Hamlet.". (Herald-Tribune)
Songs of Ourselves Mar 7, 2007
I don t know if I can limit it to one single poem, but I would say that John Keats s poem To Autumn is the most perfect poem in the English language. And it is to me a spectacular feat about poetry in relationship to mortality. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Art center donations are worth every penny Mar 4, 2007
Almost 200 years ago, the poet John Keats wrote, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.". The teaching of the arts is also an investment in our future. (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
London Magazine risks retirement Mar 1, 2007
Ben DowellWednesday February 28, 2007. Shelley: contributed to the London Magazine, which was popular with the romantic poets. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Teachers fight back over classics Feb 17, 2007
QCA LIST OF CLASSIC AUTHORS Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Charlotte Brnte, Robert Burns, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kate Chopin, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, John Masefield, Alexander Pope, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare (sonnets), Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Alfred Lord Tennyson, HG Wells, Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth.... (BBC News -- UK)
'Precincts of Paradise' Jan 25, 2007
While he admires the work of Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats, John Keats and William Wordsworth, he acknowledges a great debt of gratitude to Hayden Carruth, with whom he studied closely during his graduate years at Syracuse University. "I found, in Carruth's work, a poetry that really excited me because it was accomplishing a lot of things I wanted to accomplish," Mr. Hoey says. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
YOUR VIEW: Where are the marches against the war? Jan 12, 2007
The poet John Keats wrote often of the power of the imagination to seize truth. Why not imagine a world in peace. (The Standard-Times, MA)
