Christopher Howell

One of my recent Netflix picks was Bright Star, the biopic about the poet John Keats and his lady love Fanny Brawne.   I thought it was lovely–sad at the end, of course, but also unabashedly romantic. I could now present to you a poem by Keats, but that would be too obvious.  Instead, here\’s one about the poet. Keats by Christopher Howell When Keats, at last beyond the curtain of love’s distraction, lay dying in his room on the Piazza di Spagna, the melody of the Bernini Fountain “filling him like flowers,” he held his breath...

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