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Houghton already holds one of the largest collections of Keats?? correspondence, including 13 of his 39 surviving letters to Brawne. “It just seemed with the movie coming out, I thought it would be nice to do something topical,” said Houghton curator Leslie Morris...
Much like Keats?? own tragically short life, the Keats room is remarkably beautiful but modest in size and decoration. The small room’s rich oak walls are lined with Keats?? works, a monument to his prolific writing. His words more than his life dominate the room, but along the walls hang heirlooms of Keats?? love and life, revealing new insights into this charming figure. These personal letters casts the enormous literary figure in a different way. “They’re funny—like some of his earlier poetry...
...much more personal side of Keats is revealed at the new Houghton display, which includes two of Keats?? original letters to Brawne. Even through a strong plexi-glass case and after 200 years, Keats?? cursive seems to stream off the page. Without a scratch or crossed-out word, his letters speak to a passionate and sometimes humorous rapport with his beloved, whom he often addressed as “My dearest girl.” Keats wrote in one letter, “If illness makes such an agreeable variety in the manner of your eyes...
Researchers for “Bright Star” used some of the same letters at Houghton to construct the scenes of dedication and love shared between Keats and Brawne in the English countryside. Even in the film, Director Jane Campion chose to let Keats?? prose take center stage. “Jane’s number one mantra throughout the pre-production process was to keep the visuals simple,” said the film’s cinematographer Greig Fraser said in an email interview. “I’m sure this was largely...
...irritable reaching after fact & reason” the world has ever seen, and has contributed to our most accurate physical theory to date. Heisenberg’s uncertainty, both the consequence and the cause of much “reaching after fact & reason,” is antithetical to Keats?...