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...Hollywood in their backyard this past year, with film crews blocking off Dunster Street and celebrity sightings in CVS. But Harvard's relationship with tinsel town doesn't end where the set begins. To coincide with the release of “Bright Star,” the new romantic film about the great 19th century English poet John Keats and his love interest Fanny Brawne, Harvard’s Houghton Library has launched a new exhibit. The display, titled “John Keats and Fanny Brawne,” showcases some of the few relics of a romance...
...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,” said Heather G. Cole, assistant curator of modern books and manuscripts...
...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...
Scholars often worry whether a major motion picture distracts or taints an author’s works. Stillinger, who has written and edited multiple books on Keats, said the new attention to the poet has only had positive effects. “All this attention, all the reviews, all the people seeing it—it’s a great boost for Keats and the study of English poetry,” he said. “I don’t think many people outside of the undergraduate community would [otherwise] read his works...
...economics graduate student who asked to remain anonymous said that a 3 percent increase in his stipend would translate into an extra $600. He said that the additional support will help with groceries, but he was less confident in its ability to draw new students...