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| Title | : | Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne |
| Author | : | John Keats |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 132 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2009 by Penguin Books |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Nonfiction. Romance |
John Keats
Paperback | Pages: 132 pages Rating: 4.29 | 2567 Users | 235 Reviews
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I have two luxuries to brood over...your Loveliness and the hour of my deathThough John Keats (1795-1821) died when he was just twenty-five years old, he left behind some of the most exquisite and moving poetry ever written.
He also left an incredibly beautiful and tender collection of love letters, inspired by his great love for Fanny Brawne. Although they knew each other for just a few short years and spent a great deal of that time due to Keats' worsening illness, which forced him to live abroad, Keats wrote again and again about Fanny--his very last poem is called simply "To Fanny"--and wrote love letters to her constantly. She, in turn, would wear the ring he had given her until her death.
This remarkable volume contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion, and is a dazzling display of a talent cruelly cut short.
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| Original Title: | So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne |
| ISBN: | 0143117742 (ISBN13: 9780143117742) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Let me have another opportunity of years before me and I will not die without being rememberd pleads John Keats in one of the thirty-seven surviving love letters he sent to his angel, Fanny Brawne. It was some months before his partying to Italy, where he was sent following his doctors advice as the last chance to survive a long, strenuous illness. He was supposed to benefit from the milder winter there. He would never return to England, dying in Rome at the premature age of twenty-five andI picked this book after I saw the movie and I was absolutely stunned by the beauty, sincerity and poetry of these letters. They are intense and heartbreaking. I couldn't believe they were written 200 years ago...I loved poems as well, although I wish there were more.
February 1820My dearest Girl If illness makes such an agreeable variety in the manner of your eyes I should wish you sometimes to be ill. I wish I had read your note before you went last night that I might have assured you how far I was from suspecting any coldness: You had a just right to be a little silent to one who speaks so plainly to you. You must believe you shall, you will that I can do nothing say nothing think nothing of you but what has its spring in the Love which has so long been my
I feel like the poems and letters made a fairly visible and hard to watch/hard to look away from transition between thoughtful and romantic to frantic, paranoid, obsessive and overwhelming. Particularly the last two letters and two poems were almost begging fanny never to look or love anyone else and the very last poem seemed to me like he was saying he was going to haunt her from the grave. God this was so captivating. The poems are wonderful as always but the letters are the true gems, at the
"For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair." Bright and delicate may just be the two perfect words to describe this book. With his bare words, Keats creates pictures that are so vividly beautiful and hurtful, that they cast an excruciatingly bright light over feelings such as love, desperation, jealousy, torment and desire. As a glittering firework the words of Keats unfold with such a power and magnanimity
Glorious glorious glorious!
I have to give this 5 stars because, well, it's Keats. Except for a short introduction it's all Keats, his letters to Fanny Brawne and a selection of his poems. Most of these letters are little more than notes, short missives to his beloved. Considering his health, which he often alluded to, she was probably lucky to receive as many as she did. None of Fanny's letters to Keats is included since he was buried with many of them. He does refer to her notes and how he treasures them though frankly I
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